"Caoutchouc" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... long strips of silk, sewn together, and rendered air-tight by means of a coating of caoutchouc. A valve is fitted to the top, and by means of it the aeronaut can descend to the earth at will, by allowing some quantity of the gas to escape. The car in which he sits is suspended to the balloon by a network, which covers the whole structure. Sacks of sand are carried in this car as ballast, ...
— Wonderful Balloon Ascents - or, the Conquest of the Skies • Fulgence Marion
... wonderful sight to see one of those small hands expand and cover a third of the keyboard. It was like the opening of the mouth of a serpent which is going to swallow a rabbit whole. In fact, Chopin appeared to be made of caoutchouc. ...
— Frederick Chopin as a Man and Musician - Volume 1-2, Complete • Frederick Niecks
... out, and in the darkness it might have been mistaken for a tubular boiler of a dumpy shape. It was built of aluminium steel, able to withstand the impact of a meteorite, and the interior was lined with caoutchouc, which is a non-conductor of heat, as well as air-proof. The foot or basement contained the driving mechanism, and a small cabin for Mr. Carmichael. The upper shell, or main body, of an oval contour, projected beyond the basement, and was surmounted ...
— A Trip to Venus • John Munro
... trees contain caoutchouc and gum; peppers,[26] ethereal oils, alkaloids, piperin, white resin, and malic acid. Datisca cannabina[27] contains a coloring matter and another substance peculiar to itself, datiscin, a kind of starch, ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 623, December 10, 1887 • Various
... a layer of such composition and one or more layers or strata of leather or caoutchouc, or both, such being for the formation of cue ...
— Scientific American, Vol. 17, No. 26 December 28, 1867 • Various
... if he were some one else, was droll in the extreme. His nervousness prevented him from taking regular sleep, and he passed nights curled around a camp-stool, in positions to dislocate an ordinary person's joints and drive the "caoutchouc man" to despair. On such occasions, after long silence, he would suddenly direct his eyes and nose toward me with "General Taylor! What do you suppose President Davis made me a major-general for?"—beginning with ...
— Destruction and Reconstruction: - Personal Experiences of the Late War • Richard Taylor
... trinity, was born under it. This tree is extensively planted around the temples of the Hindus, and many religious devotees pass their lives under its shade for its sanctifying influence. It is useful for other purposes; for the lac-insect feeds upon its leaves, and the women get a kind of caoutchouc from its sap, ...
— Across India - Or, Live Boys in the Far East • Oliver Optic
... this forest, which ought to be very common in this part of the new continent; it was the caoutchouc-tree. In fact, the "ficus primoides," the "castilloa elastica," the "cecropia peltats," the "collophora utilis," the "cameraria letifolia," and above all, the "syphonia elastica," which belong to different families, abound in the provinces of South America. And meanwhile, a rather ...
— Dick Sand - A Captain at Fifteen • Jules Verne |
