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The juice of a local vine, Ipomoea alba, was then mixed with this latex to create processed rubber as early as 1600 BC.
A 1906 Punch ( magazine ) | Punch cartoon depicting Leopold II as a rubber vine entangling a Congolese man
* Moon vine ( I. alba ) sap was used for vulcanization of the latex of Castilla elastica ( Panama rubber tree, Nahuatl: olicuáhuitl ) to rubber ; as it happens, the rubber tree seems well-suited for the vine to twine upon, and the two species are often found together.
* Red Rubber Scandal-was one of the first humanitarian global campaigns but concerned the rubber vine species
Cryptostegia grandiflora, commonly known as rubber vine, is a woody-perennial vine that is native to south-west Madagascar.
However, if enough water is available, rubber vine can grow as much as five metres in one month.
It is usual to find both mature and immature fruit on rubber vine at any one time.
A rubber vine can grow up to 2 metres ( m ) tall as a shrub, but when it is supported on other vegetation as a vine, it can reach up to 30 metres in length.
For this reason, rubber vine thrives on ( in fact, requires ) the extreme variability of rainfall and streamflow characteristic of central Queensland.
The extreme variability ( four times that of other countries to which it has been introduced ) is almost certainly why rubber vine has become a major weed in Australia and not any other country in which it has been introduced.
Rubber vine is also extremely toxic to all livestock: less than 10 grams of rubber vine leaves can kill a 400 kilogram horse within six days, and it is also highly toxic to cattle, sheep and goats.
Control of rubber vine has relied on importing biological agents from its native habitat in southwestern Madagascar, the most important of which is the " rubber vine rust " ( Maravalia cryptostegiae ).
In some areas near Charters Towers, this rust has infected most rubber vine plants, but its effect has not been great enough to stop the spread of the plant westwards.

rubber and moth
To beat the gas & rubber shortage Manhattan ’ s Mrs. Kingdon Gould took the old family carriages out of moth balls, sent Daughter Edith to buy a pair of horses.

rubber and was
The way his red rubber lips were stretched across his pearly little teeth I thought he was only having a little joke, but, no, he wanted me to bend down from the roar of wind so he could roar something into my ear.
and he could tell, simply by the feel of it, whether it was made of wood, iron, cloth, rubber, and so on.
The big factories which are relatively near the centers of our cities -- the rubber factories in Akron, Chrysler's Detroit plants, U.S. Steel's Pittsburgh works -- often began on these sites at a time when that was the edge of the city, yet close to transport ( river ), storage ( piers ) and power ( river ).
Until independence, Armenia's economy was based largely on industry — chemicals, electronic products, machinery, processed food, synthetic rubber and textiles ; it was highly dependent on outside resources.
Although many types of balls are today made from rubber, this form was unknown outside the Americas until after the voyages of Columbus.
When the contents were thawed, it was discovered that the hair was not real, the head was hollow, and the feet were rubber.
He first produced a soluble phenol-formaldehyde shellac called " Novolak " that never became a market success, then turned to developing a binder for asbestos which, at that time, was molded with rubber.
* Cushioned power – This was to announce the introduction of rubber mounts on the cowling of the 1967 model 150, in addition to the rubber mounts isolating the engine from the cabin.
Judson Mitchell claims that the Central Committee meeting which elected Andropov as General Secretary, was little more than a rubber stamp meeting.
In the interim, the British parliament periodically passed enabling acts with respect to amendments to Canada's constitution ; this was never anything but a rubber stamp.
His family was one of the wealthiest families in Mexico: his grandfather had founded the Compañía Industrial de Parras, which was initially involved in vineyards, cotton, and textiles, and later expanded into mining, cotton mills, ranching, banking, coal, rubber, and foundries in the later part of the nineteenth century.
Until the end of the 19th century, rubber was the main export.
In December 1904, his parents and younger brother visited, with his father asking him to invest in a pioneering rubber plantation which Gardner was to manage ; located near the village of Belihil Oya, it was known as the Atlanta Estate, but allowed him a great deal of leisure time.
Arriving in Singapore, he initially planned to return to Ceylon, but was offered a job working as an assistant on a rubber plantation in Perak, northern Malaya, and decided to take it, working for the Borneo Company.
He continued to manage the rubber plantation but after the end of the war, commodity prices dropped and by 1921 it was difficult to make a profit.
In this capacity, he was made an Inspector of Rubber Shops, overseeing the regulation and sale of rubber in the country.
It was among the world ’ s leading producers of three valuable commodities, rubber, tin and palm oil, and also a significant iron ore producer.
The government was also aware that demand for natural rubber was bound to fall as the production and use of synthetic rubber expanded.

rubber and introduced
In 1964, the founding of Nike by Phil Knight and Bill Bowerman of the University of Oregon introduced many new improvements common in modern running shoes, such as rubber waffle soles, breathable nylon uppers, and cushioning in the mid-sole and heel.
During the second half of the 19th century German influence in Samoa expanded with large scale plantation operations being introduced for coconut, cacao and hevea rubber cultivation, especially on the island of ' Upolu where German firms monopolized copra and cocoa bean processing.
The British introduced the railway as a cheap means of transporting the goods produced in the British-owned tea, rubber and coconut plantations, situated away from the main port in Colombo.
In India, commercial cultivation of natural rubber was introduced by the British planters, although the experimental efforts to grow rubber on a commercial scale in India were initiated as early as 1873 at the Botanical Gardens, Calcutta.
1968 introduced the Endura ' rubber ' front bumper on the GTO, the precursor to modern cars ' integrated bumpers, and the first of a series " Ram Air " engines, which featured the induction of cold air to the carburetor ( s ) for more power, and took away some of the sting from deleting the famous Tri-Power multiple carburation option from the engine line up.
New applications of engineering principles, the manufacture of rubber goods, plastics, chemicals and packaging materials were all introduced, as well as the addition of synthetic fibres to the textile trade, reducing unemployment.
The older type, the standard rubber bullet, is a steel sphere coated in a thin layer of rubber, weighing 14 grams, while the new improved rubber bullet, introduced in 1989, is a rubber coated metal cylinder 1. 7 cm in diameter, weighing 15. 4 grams.
In Russia rubber boots were first introduced in the 1920s.
Amongst the technical features of interest introduced in 1866 on the Chassepot rifle was the method of obturation of the bolt by a segmented rubber ring which expanded under gas pressure and thus sealed the breech when the shot was fired.
It was introduced in 1972 and initially was used alongside the rubber bullet, which it replaced completely in 1975.
Exercising a prominent role in national exportation until 1913, when rubber was introduced to European and North American markets, Acre enjoyed a period of great prosperity: at the turn of the century, in a period of less than ten years, it boasted more than 50, 000 inhabitants.
* January 1976-Limited edition Chevette E introduced with L type specification but with black rubber surrounds on windows, revised brightwork and vynide ( plastic ) seats.
The exposition also introduced the use of caoutchouc for rubber production and the Bessemer process for steel manufacture.
A 10-figure set of carnival chalkware statues of Dogpatch characters was manufactured by Artrix Products in 1951, and Topstone introduced a line of 16 rubber Halloween masks prior to 1960.
During the second half of the 19th century German influence in Samoa expanded with large scale plantation operations being introduced for coconut, cacao and hevea rubber cultivation, especially on the island of ' Upolu where German firms monopolized copra and cocoa bean processing.
Fellow French climber Eduard Bourdineau later introduced " EB " boots, which had softer rubber soles and became very popular in the 1960 and 1970s.
However minister al-Abadi was not prepared to be a rubber stamp and he introduced more conditions in the licenses among them that a sovereign Iraqi government has the power to amend or terminate the licenses and introduce a fourth national license which caused some frictions with the CPA.
In 1848 General George Cullum, U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, introduced a rubber coated fabric inflatable bridge pontoon which was used in the Mexican-American War and later on to a limited extent during the American Civil War.
In modern history, ligation using rubber band was introduced in 1958 by Blaisdell and refined in 1963 by Barron, who introduced a mechanical device called the Barron ligator.
The pen was available only in black and red hard rubber until 1926, when Parker introduced the “ unbreakable Permanite ” Duofold ( Permanite was Parker ’ s trade name for a plastic manufactured by DuPont ).

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