Gutta-percha is a symbol of an age experiencing ... But perhaps the most important lesson is the way that the Victorians remained willfully ignorant of the materials that made their technologies ...

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 ...

H. H. Day, of New York, has obtained a patent in England for extracting from gutta percha a peculiar etheric oil which it contains preparatory to its being subjected to the process of ...

Original boxes were made from a material known as gutta percha, a form of sap from a particular tree. The tree grows on the Malay Peninsula and some of the East Indies. Collected by harvesters ...