Abacá was first cultivated on a large scale in Sumatra in 1925 under the Dutch, who had observed its cultivation in the Philippines for cordage since the ninteenth century, followed up by plantings in Central America in 1929 sponsored by the U. S. Department of Agriculture.

Abacá was the main ingredient in ropes and other products prior to the invention of nylon.

Abacá ( ; from Spanish " abacá " for Musa textilis ), Musa textilis, is a species of banana native to the Philippines, grown as a commercial crop in the Philippines, Ecuador, and Costa Rica.

Abacá rope is very durable, flexible and resistant to salt water damage, allowing its use in hawsers, ship's lines and fishing nets.

** Abacá ( A banana, producing " manila " rope from leaves )

Abacá is vulnerable to a number of pathogens, notably abaca bunchy top virus and abaca bract mosaic virus.

The fiber was originally used for making twines and ropes ; now most abacá is pulped and used in a variety of specialized paper products including tea bags, filter paper and banknotes.

* Pinoko from Black Jack is technically a cyborg ; as a living Teratoma, she is mostly organs: most of her body was crafted by Blackjack from synthetic fiber.

The role of satellites in point-to-point voice and data communications has largely been supplanted by fiber optics ; in 2006, 99 % of the world's long-distance voice and data traffic was carried over optical-fiber.

A Koenigsegg CC prototype was first publicized in 1996, while the full carbon fiber production prototype was finally unveiled at the 2000 Paris Motor Show.

The term was derived from the name of the undesirable bits of fiber and fluff found in sheep's wool.

By late 1986 fiber optic communications technology was being employed to relieve the strain on existing telephone circuits.

Internet services have been available since 1996 but there was no fiber connectivity available to the Internet backbone till 2009.

In 2007, work was completed on renovations of the press briefing room, adding fiber optic cables and LCD screens for the display of charts and graphs.

Other forms of elastic X-ray scattering include powder diffraction, SAXS and several types of X-ray fiber diffraction, which was used by Rosalind Franklin in determining the double-helix structure of DNA.

In 1965, a durable fiber reinforced plastic 19-inch rackmount case was patented by ECS Composites and became widely used in military and commercial applications for electronic deployment and operation.

Although cultivated since antiquity, it was the invention of the cotton gin that so lowered the cost of production that led to its widespread use, and it is the most widely used natural fiber cloth in clothing today.

During the late medieval period, cotton became known as an imported fiber in northern Europe, without any knowledge of how it was derived, other than that it was a plant ; noting its similarities to wool, people in the region could only imagine that cotton must be produced by plant-borne sheep.

Through tariffs and other restrictions, the British government discouraged the production of cotton cloth in India ; rather, the raw fiber was sent to England for processing.

Acetate in fiber form was developed in 1924.

Nylon, the first fiber synthesized entirely from petrochemicals, was introduced as a sewing thread by DuPont in 1936, followed by DuPont's acrylic in 1944.

Some garments were created from fabrics based on these fibers, such as women's hosiery from nylon, but it was not until the introduction of polyester into the fiber marketplace in the early 1950s that the market for cotton came under threat.

The first Chinese paper was made of cotton fiber.

sativa was presumably selected for traits that enhance fiber or seed production, whereas C. sativa subsp.

The method was developed to replace the Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy ( PDH ) system for transporting large amounts of telephone calls and data traffic over the same fiber without synchronization problems.

The first patented design of a water ski that included carbon fiber was that of Hani Audah at SPORT labs in 2001, and its first inclusion in tournament slalom skiing was in 2003.

Due to the shorter repeater spacings required by digital systems, long-distance still used FDM until the late 1970s when optical fiber was improved to the point that digital connections became the cheapest ones for all distances, short and long.

Technological changes mitigated much of this expected demand as fiber optics replaced copper wire networks and various plastics replaced the once ubiquitous copper pipes throughout the construction industry.

Soluble fiber also attenuates the absorption of sugar, reduces sugar response after eating, normalizes blood lipid levels and, once fermented in the colon, produces short-chain fatty acids as byproducts with wide-ranging physiological activities ( discussion below ).

The mixing of silk and acetate in fabrics was accomplished at the beginning and almost at once cotton was also blended, thus making possible low-cost fabrics by means of a fiber which then was cheaper than silk or acetate.

The Eurasian beaver or European beaver ( Castor fiber ) is a species of beaver, which was once widespread in Eurasia, where it was hunted to near extinction both for fur and for castoreum, a secretion of its scent gland believed to have medicinal properties.

However, a translational gauge symmetry may be introduced thus: Instead of seeing tetrads as fundamental, we introduce a fundamental R < sup > 4 </ sup > translational gauge symmetry instead ( which acts upon the internal Minkowski space fibers affinely so that this fiber is once again made local ) with a connection B and a " coordinate field " x taking on values in the Minkowski space fiber.

* A panel of a rigid, highly-porous material, such as fumed silica, aerogel or glass fiber, to support the membrane walls against atmospheric pressure once the air is evacuated.

Like some other members of its genus, S. trifasciata yields bowstring hemp, a strong plant fiber once used to make bowstrings.

Physical stimulation of neuromas can increase C fiber activity, thus increasing phantom pain, but pain still persists once the neuromas have ceased firing action potentials.

The stems have a high quality fiber and were once exported from India and elsewhere as “ hemp ” ( Guzmán 1975, Holm and others 1997 ).

The packing efficiency, F.R., of fiber plates did not receive much attention in the literature, probably as it is high for the larger fibers generally used, until rather recently.

Agriculture also called farming or husbandry is the cultivation of animals, plants, fungi, and other life forms for food, fiber, biofuel and other products used to sustain life.

Usually, compound bows are used for large game hunting and may feature fiber optic sights and other enhancements.

Most abacá fiber is pulped and processed into specialty paper used in tea bags, vacuum bags, currency, and more.

Plastics are made from fossil hydrocarbons, and carbon fiber, made by pyrolysis of synthetic polyester fibers is used to reinforce plastics to form advanced, lightweight composite materials.

Though the fiber flow ( local inhomogeneities of the material's chemical composition generated during casting ) doesn ’ t follow the shape of the crankshaft ( which is undesirable ), this is usually not a problem since higher quality steels, which normally are difficult to forge, can be used.

The former Republic of Rhodesia used two WW2 British-style compressed asbestos fiber tags, a No. 1 octagonal ( green ) tag and a No. 2 circular ( red ) tag, stamped with identical information.

Snakewood and carbon fiber are also used in bows of a variety of different qualities.

When a twisted pair or fiber link segment is used and neither end is connected to a repeater, full-duplex Ethernet becomes possible over that segment.

Other types of material used to make guitar necks are graphite ( Steinberger guitars ), aluminum ( Kramer Guitars, Travis Bean and Veleno guitars ), or carbon fiber ( Modulus Guitars and ThreeGuitars ).

A modern variation of a shinai with carbon fiber reinforced resin slats is also used.

A crystal structure of a tetranucleosome has been presented and used to build up a proposed structure of the 30 nm fiber as a two-start helix.

Some non-stilbene brighteners are used in more permanent applications such as whitening synthetic fiber.

Also, as the fiber tip pen is used, the tip slowly wears away on the plotting medium, producing a progressively wider, smudged line.

PPP is used over many types of physical networks including serial cable, phone line, trunk line, cellular telephone, specialized radio links, and fiber optic links such as SONET.

The terms pilus and fimbria ( Latin for ' thread ' or ' fiber '; plural: fimbriae ) can be used interchangeably, although some researchers reserve the term pilus for the appendage required for bacterial conjugation.

Different fiber types, including carbon-fiber, are used to give poles specific characteristics intended to promote higher jumps.

In recent years, carbon fiber has been added to the commonly used E-glass and S-glass materials to create a pole with a lighter carry weight.

With the viscosity of a sol adjusted into a proper range, both optical quality glass fiber and refractory ceramic fiber can be drawn which are used for fiber optic sensors and thermal insulation, respectively.

Over time, materials for both the core and torsion box have changed, with wood, various plastic foams, fibreglass, kevlar and carbon fiber all being used in different designs.