"India rubber" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... tightly filled with corks; with a cord, a hundred yards in length, attached. Next were two complete suits, made of white calico; with caps, with long flaps of the same material. Next were two large rolls of India rubber webbing, about six inches wide, which they had brought ...
— The Young Franc Tireurs - And Their Adventures in the Franco-Prussian War • G. A. Henty
... have the same material fastened around its lower edge, and furnished with strings to draw it so closely around the neck and shoulders that a bee cannot creep under it. Woolen stockings may then be drawn over the hands, or better still, India Rubber gloves, such as are now in very common use, may be worn; these gloves are impenetrable to the sting of a bee, and yet are so soft and pliant as scarcely in the least to interfere with the operations of ...
— Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee - A Bee Keeper's Manual • L. L. Langstroth
... trials for testing this property consists simply of a tinplate box about 1 ft. square, with two holes of 2 in. diameter bored in opposite sides. Through these holes is passed a piece of wide glass tubing 18 in. long. This is fitted with India rubber corks at each end, one single and the other double bored. Through the double bored cork goes a glass tube to a Woulffe's bottle containing warm water. A thermometer is passed into the interior of the tube by the second hole. The other stopper ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 821, Sep. 26, 1891 • Various
... of glass half an inch larger all round than the negative with India rubber solution (see Eastman formula), and squeegee the negative face downward upon the rubber, interposing a sheet of blotting paper and oilskin between the negative and squeegee to prevent injury to the exposed rubber surface, and then place ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 623, December 10, 1887 • Various
... time other things were discovered, showing what a thorough person X. was. A large India rubber bath, for instance, and a bath sheet to go under it. A Beatrice oil stove and oil. An electric torch for sudden requirements at night. A tea-basket for picnics. Quantities of cart-oil. A piece of pumice stone (very ...
— The Slowcoach • E. V. Lucas
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