The Origin & Romance of Rubber. [With Plates.].
Author | : E. F. DON |
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Total Pages | : 61 |
Release | : 1943 |
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Author | : E. F. DON |
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Total Pages | : 61 |
Release | : 1943 |
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Author | : United States Rubber Company |
Publisher | : Hardpress Publishing |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 2016-06-21 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781318760893 |
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Author | : United States Rubber Company |
Publisher | : CreateSpace |
Total Pages | : 30 |
Release | : 2013-12 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781494792503 |
Rubber is a substance of so many important characteristics that its uses are countless. It is used for certain purposes because it stretches, for others because it is airtight and watertight, for others because it is a non-conductor of electricity, for others because it is shock-absorbing, and for others because it is adhesive. It is on rubber that infants cut their teeth; after all the teeth are gone old age makes use of rubber in plates for false teeth. Ten million motorists and other millions of cyclists in the United States ride on rubber tires that are durable, noiseless and airtight. Balloons of rubber float aloft, and huge submarines plow their routes beneath the ocean's surface propelled by electricity stored in great rubber cells. Sheathed in rubber, the lightning makes a peaceful way through our homes, offices and factories, furnishing light and telephone service. Divers sink out of sight beneath the waves in rubber suits. Rubber air-brake hose on railroad trains makes safe the travel of a nation, air-drill hose rivets our ships, fire hose protects the properly in city and town and garden hose brings nourishment to our growing plants. Rubber clothing protects against storm and rubber footwear guards us against cold and wet. Tennis balls and golf balls and rubber-cored baseballs give healthful sport to the millions. In hospitals and medical work the uses of rubber are without number. The Romance of Rubber was published in the early 20th century by the United States Rubber Company so that "coming generations of our country ... have some understanding of the importance of rubber in our every day life... We believe the rubber industry will be better off if the future citizens of our country know more about it." Learn about Christopher Columbus's discovery of rubber, how the crafty British entrepreneur, Wickham, managed to smuggle rubber seedlings out of Brazil, and how rubber manufacturing came to be a "peculiarly American industry." The myriad uses of rubber from a century ago are also elaborated in considerable detail - everything from submarines to sneakers to dentures. A fascinating look at this commodity that has played a crucial role in shaping the modern world.
Author | : Edward Churton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 1845 |
Genre | : Best books |
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Author | : Thomas Hancock |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 1857 |
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Author | : Harvey Samuel Firestone Jr. |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 2012-05-01 |
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ISBN | : 9781258359379 |
Author | : Cornell University. Libraries |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 1896 |
Genre | : Raeto-Romance philology |
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Author | : Henri-Jean Martin |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 620 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0226508366 |
Continuing on to the electronic revolution, Martin's account takes in the changes wrought on writing by computers and electronic systems of storage and communication, and offers surprising insights into the influence these new technologies have had on children born into the computer age. The power of writing to influence and dominate is, indeed, a central theme in this history, as Martin explores the processes by which the written word has gradually imposed its logic on society over four thousand years. The summation of decades of study by one of the world's great scholars on the subject, this fascinating account of writing explains much about the world we inhabit, where we uneasily confer, accept, and resist the power of the written word.
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Total Pages | : 1130 |
Release | : 1904 |
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Author | : Pieter-Dirk Uys |
Publisher | : Penguin Random House South Africa |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 2012-11-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1770225145 |
Evita Bezuidenhout, still regarded as the most famous white woman in South Africa, was born Evangelie Poggenpoel of humble Boer origins in the dusty Orange Free State town of Bethlehem on 28 September 1935. Illegitimate, imaginative, pretty and ambitious, she dreamt of Hollywood fame and fortune, tasting stardom in such 50s Afrikaner film classics as 'Boggel en die Akkedis' (Hunchback and the Lizard), 'Meisie van my Drome' (Girl of my Dreams) and 'Duiwelsvallei' (Devil's Valley). She married into the political Bezuidenhout Dynasty and became the demure wife of NP Member of Parliament Dr J.J. De V. Bezuidenhout and the proud mother of De Kock, Izan and Billie-Jeanne. Power became her addiction. She wielded it in the boardroom, the kitchen and round the dinner table, becoming confidante to the flawed gods on the Boer Olympus and so shaping the course of history with her close and often unbelievable relationships with the grim-faced leaders of the day: Dr H.F. Verwoerd, B.J. Vorster, P.W. Botha and F.W. de Klerk. Hand in hand with the glamorous Evita of Pretoria was the Tallyrand of Africa, Pik Botha, her ageing Romeo and constant friend, while watching her from afar as she watched him, Nelson R. Mandela, alive today thanks to her timely interventions. Satirical, provocative, radical and humorous, A Part Hate A Part Love will have you rolling on the floor one minute and weeping the next.