utenberg.org Title: Gutta-Percha Willie Author: George MacDonald Release Date: November 15, 2003

A BIRD OF AGNES WILLIE'S DREAM Summary: Gutta Percha Willie, the Working Genius for all reading ages.

THE HISTORY OF GUTTA-PERCHA WILLIE.

It was his own father, however, who gave him the name of Gutta-Percha Willie, the reason of which will also show itself by and by.

This is the story of Gutta Percha Willie.

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No mode had been devised for the treatment of india-rubber to make it available for purposes of insulation, and gutta-percha was wholly unknown as an article of use or commerce in this country.

The black artificial ones of caoutchouc or gutta-percha are unnatural.

If a man were made of gutta-percha, his heart would quail at such a moment.

Plus proficiet gutta mea, quam tot eorum drachmae et unciae. 4167.

[Footnote 123: The gutta serena, or cataract.

" "That seems easy enough," said Malcolm, "but how do they make it into gutta-percha?" "Gutta-percha is not made," replied his governess, "and it is taken from an entirely different tree, the Icosandra gutta, which grows in Southern Asia.

" "That seems easy enough," said Malcolm, "but how do they make it into gutta-percha?" "Gutta-percha is not made," replied his governess, "and it is taken from an entirely different tree, the Icosandra gutta, which grows in Southern Asia.

" "That seems easy enough," said Malcolm, "but how do they make it into gutta-percha?" "Gutta-percha is not made," replied his governess, "and it is taken from an entirely different tree, the Icosandra gutta, which grows in Southern Asia.

The milky fluid is procured in the same way, but it is placed in vessels to evaporate, and the solid substance left at the bottom is the gutta-percha.

The wonderful submarine telegraph could not convey its messages between the Old World and the New were not its wires protected from injury by a coating of gutta-percha.

The long straps used in working machines are also made of gutta-percha, and this is another instance where its non-elasticity gives it the preference over India-rubber.

" The children were very much pleased to find that they had learned the nature of three important articlesIndia-rubber, gutta-percha and vulcaniteand they thought it would be quite easy to remember the differences between them.

It partook of the delicious fragrance of jonquil and of the stench of gutta percha and coal oil.

GUTTA-PERCHA, the inspissated juice of a tree found in the Malay Archipelago.

HARBURG (35), a prospering Prussian seaport in Lüneburg, on the Elbe, 5 m. S. of Hamburg; its industries embrace gutta-percha goods, oil, chemicals, &c.; is a favourite watering-place.

The discovery of gutta-percha by a Scotch surveyor of the East India Company in 1842, and the invention of a machine for applying it to a wire, by Dr. Werner Siemens, proved a great aid to the cable-makers.

These gutta-percha-covered wires were used for underground telegraphy both in England and on the Continent.

It consisted of seven copper wires covered with gutta-percha and wound with tarred hemp.

This was surrounded by four layers of gutta-percha, cemented together by the compound, and about this hemp was wound.