Vulcanite
[vʌlkәnait]
Definition
(n.) Hard rubber produced by vulcanizing with a large proportion of sulphur.
Editor: Paula
Examples
- This screw engages with a second and similar screw which is so arranged as to move the strip of vulcanite up or down. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- A vulcanite or other strip is easily affected by differences of temperature, expanding and contracting by reason of the minutest changes. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The substance on whose expansion the working of the instrument depends is a strip of some material extremely sensitive to heat, such as vulcanite. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- This instrument can also be used to indicate minute changes of moisture in the air by substituting a strip of gelatine in place of the vulcanite. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- This exhibit cost him $30,000, and he called it the Goodyear Vulcanite Court. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- This causes the vulcanite strip to press more or less upon the carbon button, and thus produces the desired change in the resistance of the circuit. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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