It took more than money and man-power to lay the transatlantic cable. Gutta-percha, a natural plastic extracted from trees in Southeast Asia, sparked a craze in Victorian England, leading to its use ...

Few materials are as misunderstood, or misidentified as often, as gutta-percha. Pick up a union case in any antiques shop, and odds are good the tag will say "gutta-percha." Wrong. Most likely the ...

For the past few years, 100-year-old rubber-like blocks from Indonesia have been mysteriously washing up on beaches in the UK and northern Europe. The Titanic has been suggested as one of the possible ...

TJIPETIR is believed to be the name of a 19th Century rubber plantation About 40 large blocks of a rubber-like substance, believed to be from a shipwreck in the Atlantic Ocean, have washed up on ...

Mystery surrounds the origin of cargo thought to be 100-years-old that keeps being washed up around the shores of Britain and northern Europe. The most recent discovery was four rubber squares stamped ...

BOTANISTS who are interested in the cultivation of Sapotaceœ on a commercial scale, are beginning to realise the consequences of the careless methods that have denuded the Indo-Malayan regions of ...

A gutta purcha obturator is a hand-held device used in root canal therapy to fill a tooth with gutta purcha, a form of natural rubber. Obturators heat the material before delivering it into the tooth ...