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 ...

This new wonder material was called Gutta Percha, after the tree that it came from, and it would blow Victorian minds. Video by Archie Crofton Narration by Emily West Follow BBC Reel on Twitter ...

It provides easy filling of lateral and curved root canals. Flowable alpha gutta-percha with low melting point allows apical sealing of the root canal including lateral canals and isthmi.

The wealth of a Mexican often consists in his maguey plantation. New Gutta Percha Tree. Instigated by the threatened dearth of the gutta percha tree (Isonandra Gutta), M. Heckel has sought a ...

Portuguese engineer Jose d'Almeida describes the uses of gutta-percha to the Royal Asiatic Society in London. Gutta-percha, produced from the sap of the gutta tree, is a hard yet flexible ...

Simon, in 1860, proposed vulcanized gutta-percha, but on trial this substance was found more destructible than lead. Peter Ward, in 1862, proposed a series of glass sheets to increase the surface ...

Founded in 1849 by Pauline Moynat, the House whose signature “M” monogram makes it easily detectable, established itself as a ...

A little over a century ago the traditional feather-stuffed golf ball, in use for over 400 years, was replaced by a ball made of gutta-percha. Up to that time golf had been played almost ...

British engineers made a copper-wire cable, insulated it with gutta-percha (a rubberlike Malayan tree sap), and laid it across the English Channel. Soon came a cable across the Atlantic.

It's no secret that Dublin actor Barry Keoghan has gone from strength to strength in the last 12 months, from his appearance ...

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 ...