The little-known tree that revolutionised global communication

BBC Reel ^ | July 27, 2022 | Video by Archie Crofton, Narration by Emily West

[SunkenCiv]

The little-known tree that revolutionised global communication
July 27, 2022 | BBC Reel

[dangus]

I’ll save y’all the click: the “rubber” from this tree makes great insulation for telecomm wires.

[Tucker39]

Gutta Percha is what an endodontist uses to fill up the hole he bored in your jawbone in a root canal operation. He packs it with gutta percha. I do not know the rest of the procedure, but I’m well familiar with the material. Gutta Percha Points are tapered sticks of the material in different diameters to correspond with the size reamer that was used in clearing out the root canal.

[Jamestown1630]

I think it’s still used in endodontics.

[Hebrews 11:6]

Thanks.

[Flash Bazbeaux]

As soon as I saw that it was from 1842 I thought gutta-percha, and Preston Brooks.

[Hebrews 11:6]

Several posters have affirmed that.

[woodbutcher1963]

I was just on Cable Road in Rye, NH this past Friday.
It was the site where they laid the first transatlantic cable.
I assume it would not have been possible with out this tree.

[SuzyQue]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2314083/Mystery-100-year-old-rubber-blocks-washing-shores-Britain-northern-Europe.html

[SES1066]

For later read

[Red Badger]

[Sarcazmo]

XD XD... That’s the one!

[zeugma]

A materials revolution that, 180 years later, would provide plastic eating aquatic bacteria with the grandest feasts of their species. Ain’t nature wonderful, Moe?

God gave us everything we would need. Sometimes you have to look for it though.

[gitmo]

Some of us more than others.

[Albion Wilde]

19th century golf balls had gutta percha covers.

The word "gutta percha" appears in James Joyce's novel The Dead in reference to winter galoshes. (Or at least in the movie version, starring Anjelica Huston.)

[Hebrews 11:6]

Thanks.

[SunkenCiv]

“...well, she was a good wife.”

[SunkenCiv]

One thing I wonder about endodontics, is, why are there no begindontics?

[SunkenCiv]

[Jamestown1630]

I think that may be called ‘dental hygiene’...

(You know perfectly well what ‘endo’ means ;-)

[Born in 1950]

Thanks for the heads up.