Meanness is as natural to some people, as gutta percha beefsteaks in a cheap boarding-house.
The practice of collecting camphor in this way is probably a very ancient one,[56] whereas the collection of gutta and rubber has been undertaken only in recent years in response to the demands of the European market.
Water is then boiled in a large pan beside the tree, a little common salt is added to the water, and the gutta is poured into the boiling water, when it rapidly congeals.
The shaft is sunk into the end of a rod of hard wood and secured with gutta and fine rattan lashing.
Travis, in Practical Golf at page 139, saying: With a very rapid swing, the force or energy stored up in the gutta ball is greater than in the Haskell.
It was not so brilliant in substantive invention, as it added but little to the telegraph as already known, beyond the means for insulating the wires within a gutta percha cable, but it was one of the greatest of all engineering works.
Let us rub a strip of writing paper with Indian rubber, or a strip of Gutta Percha with the fingers, in the dark, and we have the manifestation of several curious phenomena.
On the use of Gutta Percha in Electrical Insulation: by Dr.
Now, can you afford room for the means by which this may be remedied; as my wish to substitute glass for gutta percha remains?
His Eyes were very clear, and free from Inflammation, but the Pupil was wholly immoveable, as in a Gutta serena.
At the Great Exhibition there were specimens of gutta percha stereotypes, that produced excellent impressions, and there were also fine stereotype castings of type in iron, from which a copy of the Bible had been printed.
This fine copper cord is covered carefully with gutta percha; it is then coated with tarred hemp, and is protected externally by an iron wire rope, composed of numerous strands of fine wire.
The excellent insulation obtained by means of gutta percha covered wires has caused a return to the original plan of burying the wires in trenches in the ground.
They were then covered with hempen yarn, to protect the gutta percha from attrition, and they were thus introduced into the hollow cable, of which they formed the core.
The use of gutta percha as an insulating covering for wire has given rise to a new era in telegraphic communication.
A single copper wire, about the thickness of a common bell wire, coated thickly with gutta percha, was laid across the English Channel experimentally, without any protection.
The central dots in the section are the conducting wires round which are the gutta percha and hemp, and the outer rim represents the iron wire casing.
Ammoniacum, or Gutta Ammoniaca, is described by Dioscorides as being the juice of a ferula grown in Africa, resembling galbanum, and used for incense.
In Brooklyn, a manufacturer of shell combs told me they had several times thought of employing women, Gutta percha and vulcanized india rubber have become, to some extent, a substitute for tortoise shell.
The pernicious effects of the external use of those saturnine applications are spoken of in gutta rosea, Class II.
Mercurial ointment or sublimate, where the liver is evidently diseased; or where the guttarosea has previously existed.
Nor can these inconveniences, which occur on the too hasty cure of the itch, be explained by those which follow the cure of some kinds of gutta rosea, Class II.
It is a disease of light-coloured eyes, as the gutta serena is of dark ones.
One of them had been a free drinker, had much gutta rosacea on his face, and died suddenly a few months after his recovery from this complaint.
And an instance of the third is the sympathy between the membranes of the liver, and the skin of the face in the gutta rosea of inebriates.
This is frequently adulterated, and the nitrate acts upon the extraneous substances which are added to the gutta percha, either for adulteration, to give it firmness, or an agreeable colour.
Many of the unpleasant markings in collodion pictures may have their origin in the gutta percha.
Sheet gutta percha is now very cheap, and the baths are most easily made.
We consider glass baths are much superior togutta percha in every respect.
It is very useful to make a guttapercha cap to cover over the bath when not in use; it protects it from dust and evaporation, and saves the continual loss of materials arising from pouring the solution backwards and forwards.
A clarified solution of gutta percha in chloroform.
From some of our trees come valuable gums, such as almaciga [161] and gutta percha.
It was common for a Filipino to go into the Bukidnon country with nothing but the clothes on his back, and soon to return with three or four carabaos heavily laden with hemp, coffee, cacao, or gutta percha.
And in the companion folder of this case Of gutta percha Is the shape of a man.
For the secret of these human beings Locked in this gutta percha case Is the secret of Mephistos and red Campions.
The clasp on this gutta percha case Locks them together.
This gutta percha when rubbed with a cat's skin attracts these bits of paper, and this pith ball, and this copper ball; it moves this long lath balanced on its center, and deflects this vertical jet of water into a beautiful curve.
Let us suppose that this gutta percha, and this cat's-skin are not electrified.
If we now leave these bodies in contact, the potential of the cat's skin will diminish and that of the gutta percha will increase until they have again reached a common potential--that of the earth.
In the name of all that is smashing, what a rich full sound does not such a gutta percha club produce when in quick succession it comes down on a human shoulder.
Each gutta percha and India rubber factory has a formula of its own for making up substances as nearly identical with the natural product as possible, which are used to adulterate the rubber and gutta percha used in the factory.
The need for a substitute for gutta percha is even more acute than for artificial India rubber.
A compound used in its stead for many purposes is known as French gutta percha.
No one has as yet, however, succeeded in discovering a perfect substitute for either rubber or gutta percha.
In transferring the design to the glass, the latter, if flat, may be passed between India rubber rollers or protected by layers ofgutta percha when the pressure is applied.
Its inventors claimed that it was a perfect substitute for India rubber and gutta percha, fully as elastic and tough and not susceptible to injury from great pressure or high temperature.
This possesses nearly all the properties of gutta percha.
A substitute for guttapercha is obtained by boiling the bark of the birch tree, especially the outer part, in water over an open fire.
He complained that the cheap gutta percha shoes were hurting his trade.
Dissolve gutta percha in bisulphide of carbon; shave off the edges of the leather, and pour on the cement; allow to evaporate to dryness.
Coat with a mixture made by fusing together equal parts of pitch and gutta percha, to which is added two parts of linseed oil containing five parts of litharge.
They are cheap, and that is a great point in their favor.
Cedar blocks are used for paving all through the West, but more freely probably in Chicago than in any other city in the world.
Even of gutta percha, now applied as a coating to these wires, who can determine all the uses to which it may be found applicable?
It forms a valuable addition to the benefits already conferred upon the public by the enterprise of the Gutta Percha Company.
A "cartridge" formed with a small hollow roof of gutta percha, charged with gunpowder, and having an intercommunicating wire attached, was then brought into contact with the electric current.
The moment chosen for landing was low-water, and the coil of gutta percha ropes was immediately buried in the beach by a gang of men in attendance, up to low-water mark, and even to a short distance beyond it.
The same process was carried out in various ways, with a view of testing the efficient manner in which the gutta percha had been rendered impervious to wet, and in one instance the fusee or cartridge was placed under the water.
The experiments were altogether perfectly successful, as showing beyond all question that the properties of gutta percha and electricity combined are yet to be devoted to other purposes than that of establishing a submarine telegraph.
A galvanic battery was connected with upwards of 50 miles of copper wire covered with gutta percha, to the thickness of an ordinary black lead pencil.
The electric wires, covered with gutta percha, in length a hundred miles, were turned out by Mr Statham, at the works of the Gutta Percha Company, and nothing can be more perfect than the manner in which that order was executed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gutta" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
