HARD RUBBER AND ELASTIC STEEL The Frenchman, James Basset, has invented a method of exposing rubber to a pressure of 6000 atmospheres so that it becomes so hard as to stamp a steel-plate, and by exposing steel to the same pressure it can be as elastic as rubber.
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Waikato Times, Volume 123, Issue 20635, 22 October 1938, Page 9
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48HARD RUBBER AND ELASTIC STEEL The Frenchman, James Basset, has invented a method of exposing rubber to a pressure of 6000 atmospheres so that it becomes so hard as to stamp a steel-plate, and by exposing steel to the same pressure it can be as elastic as rubber. Waikato Times, Volume 123, Issue 20635, 22 October 1938, Page 9
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