Excerpt from India-Rubber and Its Manufacture: With Chapters on Gutta-Percha and Balata

The largely-extended use in recent years of india-rubber tyres on vehicles of all sorts has led to an increased interest being taken by the general public in the natural history and manufacture of rubber. Moreover, the establishment within the last year or two of numerous rubber plantations in Ceylon, the Straits Settlements, and Malaya has led to this almost indispensable commodity becoming a common topic of conversation.

The present volume, therefore, which is expressly designed for the general reader and for the technologist in other branches of industry, cannot be considered a superfluity - that is, if its scheme of bringing information up to date is considered by the critical reader to have been accomplished. It may be as well to state emphatically that this small volume does not pose as a working guide or hand-book for the india-rubber manufacturer, though it is hoped that the latter may find something to interest him in its pages. Success in the manufacture of india-rubber goods, I am well aware, depends largely upon close observance of detail. Except to the somewhat limited circle of manufacturers such points of detail have no interest or significance, and I have therefore avoided digressing into them or attempting to shed light on the numerous problems in the manufacture which, despite the energies of an increasing body of investigators, still await solution.

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