. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . he first great stimulationto the demand for india rubber and in-creasing use for the substance has madethe demand greater than the this account chemists have beenlaboring very hard to produce artificialrubber by synthesis, which is a processof building up a material from its ele-ments. It is said that peat containselements very close to those in rubber,and a movement has been started inScotland to use its numerous peat bogsfor the manufacture of guttapercha,which is used as a. subst
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . he first great stimulationto the demand for india rubber and in-creasing use for the substance has madethe demand greater than the this account chemists have beenlaboring very hard to produce artificialrubber by synthesis, which is a processof building up a material from its ele-ments. It is said that peat containselements very close to those in rubber,and a movement has been started inScotland to use its numerous peat bogsfor the manufacture of guttapercha,which is used as a. substitute for rub-ber in many processes. So far, guttapercha is the only sub-stance which has been found to fur-nish perfect protection for a wireagainst the chemical influences of saltwater, and the product is not onlylimited, but is practically controlled bya few manufacturers, who own the for-ests in the East Indies from which gut-tapercha is obtained. The price of guttapercha has beengradually increasing for years owingto tlie enormous demand, and the sup-ply is diminishing, so that if this latest. LOCOMOTIVE TURNING ST.\TION ON .\N IXDI.\N shops of the company at Bombay fromthe designs of our friend, Mr. A. Mor-ten Bell, the car superintendent of theroad. We also illustrate separately a com-bination baggage and third class carbuilt for the same road. The bodyframing is a Moulmein teak, withpanels of steel plate; the dimensionsare generally similar to others of thestandard build, being 62 ft. long. Theseating is arranged longitudinally for discovery should prove successful itwill contribute greatly to the worldseconomy. In Ireland there are over3,000,000 acres of bogland, which are atpresent useless, while in Scotland 2,-500,000 acres will be at the inventorsdisposal. Cause and effect, means and ends, seedand fruit cannot be severed. For the ef-fect already blooms in the cause, the endpersists in the means, the fruit in the seed. November, 1907. RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE
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