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179 years ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">1845-02-04</span>)</span> in <a href="/wiki/Islington" title="Islington">Islington</a>, London</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Founders</th><td class="infobox-data agent"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li>Charles Hancock</li><li>Henry Bewley</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Defunct</th><td class="infobox-data">April 1864<span style="display:none"> (<span class="dtend itvend">1864-04</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Fate</th><td class="infobox-data">Merged with Glass, Elliot & Co. to become the <a href="/wiki/Telegraph_Construction_and_Maintenance_Company" class="mw-redirect" title="Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company">Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Successors</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li>Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company</li><li><a href="/wiki/British_Insulated_Callender%27s_Cables" title="British Insulated Callender's Cables">British Insulated Callender's Cables</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Headquarters</th><td class="infobox-data adr"><div class="ib-company-locality locality">Islington, London</div>, <div class="ib-company-country country-name">United Kingdom</div></td></tr></tbody></table> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Tafel,_schilderijlijsten_en_andere_producten_gemaakt_van_Guttapercha_op_de_Great_Exhibition_of_the_Works_of_Industry_of_All_Nations_van_1851_in_Londen_Articles_in_Gutta_Percha._Gutta_Percha_Company_(titel_op_object),_RP-F-F25214-AP.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Tafel%2C_schilderijlijsten_en_andere_producten_gemaakt_van_Guttapercha_op_de_Great_Exhibition_of_the_Works_of_Industry_of_All_Nations_van_1851_in_Londen_Articles_in_Gutta_Percha._Gutta_Percha_Company_%28titel_op_object%29%2C_RP-F-F25214-AP.jpg/220px-thumbnail.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="286" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Tafel%2C_schilderijlijsten_en_andere_producten_gemaakt_van_Guttapercha_op_de_Great_Exhibition_of_the_Works_of_Industry_of_All_Nations_van_1851_in_Londen_Articles_in_Gutta_Percha._Gutta_Percha_Company_%28titel_op_object%29%2C_RP-F-F25214-AP.jpg/330px-thumbnail.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Tafel%2C_schilderijlijsten_en_andere_producten_gemaakt_van_Guttapercha_op_de_Great_Exhibition_of_the_Works_of_Industry_of_All_Nations_van_1851_in_Londen_Articles_in_Gutta_Percha._Gutta_Percha_Company_%28titel_op_object%29%2C_RP-F-F25214-AP.jpg/440px-thumbnail.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3028" data-file-height="3934" /></a><figcaption>A collection of objects from the Gutta Percha Company at the <a href="/wiki/Great_Exhibition" title="Great Exhibition">Great Exhibition</a> of 1851, including a table and picture frames</figcaption></figure> <p>The <b>Gutta Percha Company</b> was an English company formed in 1845 to make a variety of products from the recently introduced natural rubber <a href="/wiki/Gutta-percha" title="Gutta-percha">gutta-percha</a>. Unlike other <a href="/wiki/Natural_rubber" title="Natural rubber">natural rubbers</a>, this material was <a href="/wiki/Thermoplastic" title="Thermoplastic">thermoplastic</a> allowing it to be easily <a href="/wiki/Molding_(process)" title="Molding (process)">moulded</a>. Nothing else like it was available to manufacturing until well into the twentieth century when synthetic <a href="/wiki/Plastic" title="Plastic">plastics</a> were developed.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Gutta-percha proved to be an ideal <a href="/wiki/Insulator_(electricity)" title="Insulator (electricity)">insulator</a> for <a href="/wiki/Submarine_telegraph_cable" class="mw-redirect" title="Submarine telegraph cable">submarine telegraph cables</a>. The company started making this type of cable in 1848 and it rapidly became their main product, on which it had a near monopoly. The world's first international telegraph connection under the sea, a link from <a href="/wiki/Dover" title="Dover">Dover</a> to <a href="/wiki/Calais" title="Calais">Calais</a> in 1851, used a cable made by the company. Except for a few early ones, submarine cables were armoured with iron, then later steel, wires.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Gutta Percha Company made only the insulated cores, not the complete cable, until April 1864 when it merged into the <a href="/wiki/Telegraph_Construction_and_Maintenance_Company" class="mw-redirect" title="Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company">Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company</a>, which was later acquired by <a href="/wiki/British_Insulated_Callender%27s_Cables" title="British Insulated Callender's Cables">British Insulated Callender's Cables</a> in 1959.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Gutta-percha">Gutta-percha</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gutta_Percha_Company&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Gutta-percha"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sarawak;_four_Kayan_natives_collecting_gutta_percha_from_a_t_Wellcome_V0037406.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Sarawak%3B_four_Kayan_natives_collecting_gutta_percha_from_a_t_Wellcome_V0037406.jpg/220px-Sarawak%3B_four_Kayan_natives_collecting_gutta_percha_from_a_t_Wellcome_V0037406.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="151" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Sarawak%3B_four_Kayan_natives_collecting_gutta_percha_from_a_t_Wellcome_V0037406.jpg/330px-Sarawak%3B_four_Kayan_natives_collecting_gutta_percha_from_a_t_Wellcome_V0037406.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Sarawak%3B_four_Kayan_natives_collecting_gutta_percha_from_a_t_Wellcome_V0037406.jpg/440px-Sarawak%3B_four_Kayan_natives_collecting_gutta_percha_from_a_t_Wellcome_V0037406.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3189" data-file-height="2193" /></a><figcaption>Gutta-percha harvesting on <a href="/wiki/Sarawak" title="Sarawak">Sarawak</a></figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Gutta-percha" title="Gutta-percha">Gutta-percha</a> is a natural rubber that has the unusual property (for 19th-century materials) of being <a href="/wiki/Thermoplastic" title="Thermoplastic">thermoplastic</a>. It can be moulded after placing in hot water and will reharden when cool. It was brought to attention in Europe by <a href="/wiki/William_Montgomerie" title="William Montgomerie">William Montgomerie</a>, a Scottish surgeon of the <a href="/wiki/East_India_Company" title="East India Company">East India Company</a> in Singapore where the trees from which the material is obtained are native. Montgomerie sent samples to the <a href="/wiki/Society_of_Arts" class="mw-redirect" title="Society of Arts">Society of Arts</a> in London in 1843 with the idea that the material could be used for medical apparatus.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1844, Montgomerie left samples with <a href="/wiki/Charles_Macintosh" title="Charles Macintosh">Charles Mackintosh</a>'s raincoat company. A partner in the company, <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Hancock_(inventor)" title="Thomas Hancock (inventor)">Thomas Hancock</a>, passed samples to his brother Charles who was trying to invent a new bottle stopper made from cemented ground cork. Hancock then abandoned his original idea and took out a patent for bottle stoppers made from gutta-percha.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Company_history">Company history</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gutta_Percha_Company&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Company history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The company was formed on 4 February 1845 by partners Charles Hancock and Henry Bewley, a Dublin chemist making <a href="/wiki/Soda_water" class="mw-redirect" title="Soda water">soda water</a>, initially to make Hancock's bottle stoppers.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Their premises were at Wharf Road, <a href="/wiki/Islington" title="Islington">Islington</a>, London.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The range of products was soon greatly expanded, and included <a href="/wiki/Belt_(mechanical)" title="Belt (mechanical)">machine belts</a>, shoe soles, and toys. However, one of their most important products was gutta-percha insulated electrical cable.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Bewley was also a lead pipe maker. He had designed a machine for <a href="/wiki/Extrusion" title="Extrusion">extruding</a> lead pipes and on the formation of the Gutta Percha Company, he used this machine for extruding gutta-percha tubing. The company did not at first use this machine for insulating electrical cable. The method initially used was to apply strips of gutta-percha to copper wire. The resulting seam in the insulation was to prove problematic for underwater cables as it provided a route for the ingress of water.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Submarine_cables">Submarine cables</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gutta_Percha_Company&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Submarine cables"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Gutta-percha made possible practical <a href="/wiki/Submarine_telegraph_cable" class="mw-redirect" title="Submarine telegraph cable">submarine telegraph cables</a> because it was both waterproof and resistant to seawater as well as being thermoplastic. Gutta-percha's use as an electrical insulator was first suggested by <a href="/wiki/Michael_Faraday" title="Michael Faraday">Michael Faraday</a> after he tested a sample.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Many possible insulation schemes for a submarine cable, such as hemp impregnated with tar, were tested by <a href="/wiki/Charles_Wheatstone" title="Charles Wheatstone">Charles Wheatstone</a> who had suggested a cable between England and France as early as 1840. None of these schemes were successful. Wheatstone had looked at gutta-percha but could not find a good way of applying it to the conductor.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <p><span class="anchor" id="West_Ham_Gutta_Percha_Company"></span></p><figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Les_merveilles_de_l%27industrie,_1873_1028230_(4726480783).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Les_merveilles_de_l%27industrie%2C_1873_1028230_%284726480783%29.jpg/170px-Les_merveilles_de_l%27industrie%2C_1873_1028230_%284726480783%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="191" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Les_merveilles_de_l%27industrie%2C_1873_1028230_%284726480783%29.jpg/255px-Les_merveilles_de_l%27industrie%2C_1873_1028230_%284726480783%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Les_merveilles_de_l%27industrie%2C_1873_1028230_%284726480783%29.jpg/340px-Les_merveilles_de_l%27industrie%2C_1873_1028230_%284726480783%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2485" data-file-height="2792" /></a><figcaption>Tube extruding machine, the basis of Hancock's cable core making machine</figcaption></figure> <p>On hearing of this possible application for gutta-percha, Hancock designed a machine for applying it to a conductor seamlessly. Hancock's machine was an adaptation of Bewley's tube extruding machine. However, Hancock denied Bewley the right to use the machine. The dispute resulted in Hancock leaving and setting up the rival West Ham Gutta Percha Company. Hancock lost the dispute in court and his company went bankrupt.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The first order for gutta-percha electrical cable came in 1848 from the <a href="/wiki/South_Eastern_Railway_(UK)" class="mw-redirect" title="South Eastern Railway (UK)">South Eastern Railway</a> for a 2-mile (3.2 km) length for experiment. South Eastern Railway, in collaboration with the <a href="/wiki/Submarine_Telegraph_Company" title="Submarine Telegraph Company">Submarine Telegraph Company</a>, wished to extend their telegraph line through to France. The cable was successfully tested off <a href="/wiki/Folkestone" title="Folkestone">Folkestone</a> from the ship <i>Princess Clementine</i> with messages sent through the cable to London. The railway afterwards used the cable in a wet railway tunnel.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>This trial was followed in 1849 by an order for 25 <a href="/wiki/Nautical_mile" title="Nautical mile">nautical miles</a> (46 km) of cable from the Submarine Telegraph Company to lay a cable from <a href="/wiki/Dover" title="Dover">Dover</a> to <a href="/wiki/Calais" title="Calais">Calais</a>. This cable, laid in 1850, soon failed, largely because the Submarine Telegraph Company failed to have it <a href="/wiki/Armoured_cable" title="Armoured cable">armoured</a>. Undeterred, the company placed a new order in 1850, but this time the cable was to be sent to a <a href="/wiki/Wire_rope" title="Wire rope">wire rope</a> manufacturer for armouring before laying. This order was four times<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as large as the 1849 order since the new cable was to have four gutta-percha insulated cores. This cable was a success, and became the first working oceanic submarine cable.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Although the Gutta Percha Company were the first to make a cable for crossing an ocean, they were not the first to make a gutta-percha insulated underwater cable. Faraday published his suggestion in 1848, but had previously privately recommended gutta-percha to <a href="/wiki/William_Siemens" class="mw-redirect" title="William Siemens">William Siemens</a> of <a href="/wiki/Siemens_Brothers" title="Siemens Brothers">Siemens Brothers</a> who passed the information to his brother <a href="/wiki/Werner_von_Siemens" title="Werner von Siemens">Werner von Siemens</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1847 Werner invented a machine, described as like a macaroni machine, for applying gutta-percha to a conductor seamlessly.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His company, <a href="/wiki/Siemens_%26_Halske" title="Siemens & Halske">Siemens & Halske</a>, then laid underground gutta-percha cables extensively around Germany, including one that crossed the <a href="/wiki/Rhine" title="Rhine">Rhine</a> in 1849.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, the Gutta Percha Company were the first to make a cable that crossed an ocean.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Gutta Percha Company does not appear to have had any <a href="/wiki/Intellectual_property" title="Intellectual property">intellectual property</a> issues with Siemens. This was because Siemens' work was largely for military purposes and consequently nothing was patented initially. Siemens even obtained the gutta-percha from the Gutta Percha Company. The cables were not just for military communications, one 1848 cable in Kiel harbour had the overtly military purpose of setting off mines.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Reels_of_Gutta-percha_Covered_Conducting_Wire_Conveyed_into_Tanks_at_the_Works_of_the_Telegraph_Construction_and_Maintenance_Company,_at_Greenwich_MET_DP801249.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/The_Reels_of_Gutta-percha_Covered_Conducting_Wire_Conveyed_into_Tanks_at_the_Works_of_the_Telegraph_Construction_and_Maintenance_Company%2C_at_Greenwich_MET_DP801249.jpg/220px-thumbnail.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/The_Reels_of_Gutta-percha_Covered_Conducting_Wire_Conveyed_into_Tanks_at_the_Works_of_the_Telegraph_Construction_and_Maintenance_Company%2C_at_Greenwich_MET_DP801249.jpg/330px-thumbnail.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/The_Reels_of_Gutta-percha_Covered_Conducting_Wire_Conveyed_into_Tanks_at_the_Works_of_the_Telegraph_Construction_and_Maintenance_Company%2C_at_Greenwich_MET_DP801249.jpg/440px-thumbnail.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3749" data-file-height="2551" /></a><figcaption>Reels of gutta-percha insulated cable being loaded at the <a href="/wiki/Greenwich" title="Greenwich">Greenwich</a> works shortly after the merger into the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company</figcaption></figure> <p>Gutta-percha insulated core rapidly became the chief product of the company.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1851–1852 they produced 1,300 nautical miles (2,400 km) of it. The company had a monopoly on this product, and the cores for nearly all submarine cables made before 1865 were made by them. The Gutta Percha Company never made finished cables; they supplied the cores and other companies, mostly wire rope manufacturers, laid them into the steel armouring to make complete cables. In April 1864, the Gutta Percha Company merged with <a href="/wiki/Glass,_Elliot_%26_Co" title="Glass, Elliot & Co">Glass, Elliot and Company</a>, one of these wire rope makers, to form the <a href="/wiki/Telegraph_Construction_and_Maintenance_Company" class="mw-redirect" title="Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company">Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company</a> who could supply completed cables and provide maintenance for them.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The merger was at the instigation of <a href="/wiki/John_Pender" title="John Pender">John Pender</a> who became chairman of the company. Pender's motivation in this was that the new company should make the first successful <a href="/wiki/Transatlantic_telegraph_cable" title="Transatlantic telegraph cable">transatlantic telegraph cable</a> for the <a href="/wiki/Atlantic_Telegraph_Company" title="Atlantic Telegraph Company">Atlantic Telegraph Company</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Gutta-percha_quality">Gutta-percha quality</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gutta_Percha_Company&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Gutta-percha quality"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The quality of gutta-percha, as supplied by the Gutta Percha Company,<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was extensively discussed by Charles Bright in his book <i>Submarine Telegraphs</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Bright's father, <a href="/wiki/Charles_Tilston_Bright" title="Charles Tilston Bright">Charles Tilston Bright</a>, was the chief electrician (chief engineer) of the <a href="/wiki/Magnetic_Telegraph_Company" class="mw-redirect" title="Magnetic Telegraph Company">Magnetic Telegraph Company</a>, a major customer of the Gutta Percha Company,<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and later electrician-in-chief of the first <a href="/wiki/Transatlantic_telegraph_cable" title="Transatlantic telegraph cable">transatlantic telegraph cable</a> project of the <a href="/wiki/Atlantic_Telegraph_Company" title="Atlantic Telegraph Company">Atlantic Telegraph Company</a>, also using the Gutta Percha Company's product.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Gutta-percha from different regions contains different amounts of resin, resulting in variations in quality. For electrical cables, the resin content needs to be minimal. The best gutta-percha came from <a href="/wiki/Java" title="Java">Java</a> and <a href="/wiki/Makassar" title="Makassar">Makassar</a>, the worst came from <a href="/wiki/Borneo" title="Borneo">Borneo</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The factory purification process could also make a difference. A good commercial gutta-percha would have around 80% gutta and 15% or less of resin.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Water content has no appreciable effect on the <a href="/wiki/Electrical_resistance" class="mw-redirect" title="Electrical resistance">electrical resistance</a> of the material until the content reaches a <a href="/wiki/Conductivity_near_the_percolation_threshold" title="Conductivity near the percolation threshold">threshold</a> of around 2–3%.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Highly purified gutta-percha is almost entirely resistant to chemical attack and ingress of water. However, obtaining this level of purity was not economical for submarine cables. Impure gutta-percha oxidises and becomes brittle. The rate of deterioration is very slow for cable permanently in the water, but cable crossing the landing zone is exposed to frequent changes in temperature and cycles of exposure and submerging. This environment could cause the insulation to crumble and expose the conductor.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For this reason, these sections of cable were protected with an additional layer of another material such as <a href="/wiki/India_rubber" class="mw-redirect" title="India rubber">India rubber</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Additives to the gutta-percha could greatly affect quality. The material supplied for the Siemens cables by the Gutta Percha Company had a high sulphur content. This, together with poor joints and poor manufacturing by Siemens, caused many of the early Siemens cables to quickly fail.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gutta_Percha_Company&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Willoughby_Smith" title="Willoughby Smith">Willoughby Smith</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gutta_Percha_Company&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 23em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Ash, p. 29</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Bright, p. 11</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Thompson, D. (2008) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/articles/1641">Telegraph Construction & Maintenance Co., 1864-1959</a> in Museums Victoria Collections. Accessed 27 March 2022</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist" style="display:inline-flex;--size:100%; max-width:max(15em, calc(var(--size) - 3.2em));"><ul style="display:inline-block"><li>Haigh, p. 26</li><li>Buckley, p. 404</li></ul></div></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Haigh, p. 26</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Haigh, p. 26</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Scott</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Haigh, p. 26</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Bright, pp. 250, 301</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Haigh, p. 26</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Bright, pp. 2–4</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Haigh, p.26</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Haigh, pp. 26–27</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Scott</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Haigh, pp. 27, 192</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Haigh, p. 26</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Bright, pp. 249–250</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Bright, p. 251</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Bright, pp. 251–252</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Bright, p. 251</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-21">^</a></b></span> 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title="Plusnet">Plusnet</a></small></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/China_Mobile" title="China Mobile">China Mobile</a> <ul><li><small><a href="/wiki/China_Mobile#United_Kingdom" title="China Mobile">CMLink</a></small></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Claranet" title="Claranet">Claranet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colt_Technology_Services" title="Colt Technology Services">Colt Group</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Phone_Co-op" title="The Phone Co-op">The Co-operative</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cable_%26_Wireless_Communications" title="Cable & Wireless Communications">Cable & Wireless</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Entanet" title="Entanet">Entanet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Inmarsat" title="Inmarsat">Inmarsat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/KCOM_Group" title="KCOM Group">KCOM Group</a> <ul><li><small><a href="/wiki/Eclipse_Internet" title="Eclipse Internet">Eclipse Internet</a></small></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lebara" title="Lebara">Lebara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lycamobile" title="Lycamobile">Lycamobile</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sky_Group" title="Sky Group">Sky</a> <ul><li><small><a href="/wiki/Sky_Broadband" title="Sky Broadband">Sky Broadband</a></small></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spusu" title="Spusu">spusu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/TalkTalk_Group" title="TalkTalk Group">TalkTalk</a> <ul><li><small><a href="/wiki/TalkTalk_Business" title="TalkTalk Business">Business</a></small></li> <li><small><a href="/wiki/TalkTalk_Group#Mobile_telephony" title="TalkTalk Group">Mobile</a></small></li> <li><small><a href="/wiki/TalkTalk_TV" title="TalkTalk TV">TV</a></small></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telecom_Plus" title="Telecom Plus">Telecom Plus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tesco_Mobile" title="Tesco Mobile">Tesco</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/3_(company)" title="3 (company)">Three</a> <ul><li><small><a href="/wiki/Three_UK" title="Three UK">Three UK</a></small></li> <li><small><a href="/wiki/SMARTY" title="SMARTY">SMARTY</a></small></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Truphone" title="Truphone">Tru</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trunk_Networks" title="Trunk Networks">Trunk Networks</a> <ul><li><small>Leetline</small></li> <li><small>No One</small></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Virgin_Media_O2" title="Virgin Media O2">Virgin Media O2</a> <ul><li><small><a href="/wiki/O2_(UK)" title="O2 (UK)">O2</a></small></li> <li><small><a href="/wiki/Giffgaff" title="Giffgaff">Giffgaff</a></small></li> <li><small><a href="/wiki/Virgin_Media" title="Virgin Media">Virgin Media</a></small> <ul><li><small><a href="/wiki/Virgin_Media_Business" title="Virgin Media Business">Virgin Media Business</a></small></li></ul></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vodafone" title="Vodafone">Vodafone</a> <ul><li><small><a href="/wiki/Vodafone_UK" title="Vodafone UK">Vodafone UK</a></small></li> <li><small><a href="/wiki/Talkmobile" title="Talkmobile">Talkmobile</a></small></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Voipfone" title="Voipfone">Voipfone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/WightFibre" title="WightFibre">WightFibre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zen_Internet" title="Zen Internet">Zen Internet</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Defunct</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/AOL_Broadband" title="AOL Broadband">AOL</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Atlantic_Telegraph_Company" title="Atlantic Telegraph Company">Atlantic Telegraph Company</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Be_Un_Limited" title="Be Un Limited">Be Un Limited</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bonelli%27s_Electric_Telegraph_Company" title="Bonelli's Electric Telegraph Company">Bonelli's Electric Telegraph Company</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/British_and_Irish_Magnetic_Telegraph_Company" title="British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph Company">British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cable_%26_Wireless_plc" title="Cable & Wireless plc">Cable & Wireless plc</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cable_%26_Wireless_Worldwide" title="Cable & Wireless Worldwide">Cable & Wireless Worldwide</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Electric_Telegraph_Company" title="Electric Telegraph Company">Electric Telegraph Company</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Energis" title="Energis">Energis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Family_Mobile" title="Family Mobile">Family</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/General_Post_Office" title="General Post Office">General Post Office</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Gutta Percha Company</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ionica_(company)" title="Ionica (company)">Ionica</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/London_District_Telegraph_Company" title="London District Telegraph Company">London & Provincial District Telegraph</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mercury_Communications" title="Mercury Communications">Mercury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Telephone_Company" title="National Telephone Company">National Telephone Company</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NTL_Incorporated" title="NTL Incorporated">NTL</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orange_UK" title="Orange UK">Orange</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ovivo" class="mw-redirect" title="Ovivo">Ovivo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Post_Office_Limited" title="Post Office Limited">Post Office</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pipex" title="Pipex">Pipex</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rabbit_(telecommunications)" title="Rabbit (telecommunications)">Rabbit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mobile_by_Sainsbury%27s" title="Mobile by Sainsbury's">Sainsbury's</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Submarine_Telegraph_Company" title="Submarine Telegraph Company">Submarine Telegraph</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tiscali_UK" class="mw-redirect" title="Tiscali UK">Tiscali UK</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/T-Mobile_UK" title="T-Mobile UK">T-Mobile</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Universal_Private_Telegraph_Company" title="Universal Private Telegraph Company">Universal Private Telegraph</a></li> <li><a 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