In Russian language we have a word ”guttaperchivy” means very flexible, usually it will be used to describe some acrobats. Never knew the origin of it.
@judgedbytime2 жыл бұрын
wow
@javdetsh2 жыл бұрын
As for me, I understood the "guttaperchivy" as a sort of a rubber. Some of our Russian XX century classic writers use it.
@grovermartin68742 жыл бұрын
Trickyanna, thank you for that bit of knowledge. Interesting, and I wonder how far the concept spread?
@TheAllMightyGodofCod2 жыл бұрын
Can it be used to describe a politician or let's say a foreign minister?
@shogunz91592 жыл бұрын
"Getah percha" in malay literally meaning "Rubber of Percha" With the percha is the tree's name which native in Malay Archipelago.
@glenmartin24372 жыл бұрын
As a chemist, I was familiar with gutta percha. I did not realize the tree was nearly extinct. Thank you.
@davidjacobs85582 жыл бұрын
I guess gutta percha can not be harvested the way latex is harvested from a living tree.
@adityasixviandyj7334 Жыл бұрын
@@davidjacobs8558 I just watch on local Indonesia documentary, and as this video said, the tree need to be felled/cut down, because the Gutta Percha extracted not from the wood body/stem, but actually from the leaf, and the tree need to be grow minimally around 10 meter to be considered ready to be harvested. That's why it's considered as ecologically destructive... But one good thing about this tree: they need extremely minimum care... seedling need as tall as teenager to be ready planted on the ground, and after that they not need any care, as long they planted on rainy season. even in the documentary, the worker only need to do weeding if the bushes/weed is growing too dense/big and sometimes they not need weeding at all. Currently, the only factory that knowingly cultivated the tree and extracted Gutta Percha on the spot is in Tjipetir, Sukabumi; and currently the whole plantation & factory managed by government. The factory only making around 200KG per year or every two year, and all the Gutta Percha is exported for medical need; just like in video said, mostly for dental & orthodontic. Some article said Tjipetir factory & plantation is the last one of this kind in the world, that specialized in Gutta Percha.
@TheJoergenDK2 жыл бұрын
This is such a great video in so many ways: You get to the point very directly. You inform the viewer with only facts. You don't fill us with "How the scientist's aunt is proud of her daughter", and your footage is relevant to the narration at all points! 10 out of nine!
@jz941172 жыл бұрын
Except the narrator leaves us hanging. How is a little piece of Gutta Percha in our mouths?
@MaggieF592 жыл бұрын
Plus, I really enjoyed the graphics. Very good video.
@con.troller41832 жыл бұрын
@@jz94117 5:21
@SaveThePurpleRhino2 жыл бұрын
Well BBC does have quite amount of Poundsterling in their coffer
@jonh95612 жыл бұрын
I would love to know how the overall condition of the original undersea cables have stood the test of time over the last 150 years or so.
@philmatthews35372 жыл бұрын
Alaska was not British territory in 1850.
@masterpython2 жыл бұрын
Or ever
@rhondahuggins95422 жыл бұрын
My introduction to Gutta Percha was a PBS documentary. I only recall hearing about the telegraph line from London to New York. My 2nd encounter was root canals. My dentist was in disbelief that I knew what he was putting in my mouth! This is however the first time I have learned that the telegraph cables went all over the world...but am not surprised that greed almost wiped out the species.
@TheFrugalMombot2 жыл бұрын
The map depicting the British Empire erroneously included Alaska. It was still part of Russia at that time, but even after that it came to the US. It was never part of the British Empire. Just sayin
@floopybits80372 жыл бұрын
Very well noted
@floraaficianado50502 жыл бұрын
Goodonya mate!…I noted that too.
@gailgordon14842 жыл бұрын
And when I was educated 1950/60's the world atlas showed the British Empire in pink never red ( as that was seen as a Russian colour ) Any old atlas book with verify it .
@lmiddleman Жыл бұрын
Yup, added to the list of errors, exaggerations, and propaganda in thIs little film.
@buddharuci27012 жыл бұрын
Fountain pens. You didn’t mention the great gutta percha era of fountain pens! Well, now I have.
@rizkierwin64882 жыл бұрын
Gutta Perca came from english pronunciation of Indonesian words "getah" meaning sap, and "Perca" the name of the tree. So the literal translation is "sap of perca tree"
@kentershackle13292 жыл бұрын
Mate.. Malay language. Indonesia wasnt even born yet.. the malay language is the lingua Franca of then Areas .. Indonesia adopted the Malay language as its National Lingua franca, naming it Indonesian Getah = Rubber Percha = small piece @ patch frm bigger just like kain percha (patchwork , of remnants of cloth)
@francelonelo91872 жыл бұрын
@@kentershackle1329 are you malaysian?
@rizkierwin64882 жыл бұрын
@@kentershackle1329 that funny if you know that malay language came from Riau area of present day Indonesia. The reason why malay became lingua franca due to its position, because every sea trader will port at Riau island. If somehow the traders coma from the east, I bet Macassar language that will be lingua franca.
@kentershackle13292 жыл бұрын
@@rizkierwin6488 Sooo, got nothin to do with the Melacca Sultanate, the last great Empire before Colonialists came..?
@rizkierwin64882 жыл бұрын
@@kentershackle1329 no, malay language exist far before that, and my point is it came from the present days Indonesia.
@JeffreyKahnartist2 жыл бұрын
Empires and colonialist have a way of discovering something useful and then exterminating it. Their Shortsighted greed is astonishing yet predictable.
@berserk90852 жыл бұрын
Go live in a Cave then.
@akal1k02 жыл бұрын
Great vid! Another example of British Industry destroying the world, perhaps one day we will learn :)
@dennisdawson98962 жыл бұрын
I love little nuggets of history like this! I had heard of this tree before. I believe it was here on KZbin years ago. Still loved this story!!!
@maple12552 жыл бұрын
Thank you for your video, excellent narration and history of the Gutta Percha tree and the amazing uses it had.
@julianaponte8272 жыл бұрын
I literally was racking my brain for years about the meaning of my desist screaming "GUTTER PORCHE" during my root canal and that was his pronunciation of this
@2degucitas2 жыл бұрын
Dentist
@NoNameAtAll22 жыл бұрын
porshe?
@jeffdege47862 жыл бұрын
The were problems with undersea cables that went far beyond the insulation. Arthur Clarke's book "How the World Was One" describes the issues in fair detail.
@MichaelKingsfordGray2 жыл бұрын
The main problem was with using DC.
@lukealadeen78362 жыл бұрын
Convolution
@stephenmeier46582 жыл бұрын
I would have thought the BBC knew Alaska was not a British possession
@gailgordon14842 жыл бұрын
or shown the Empire in Red, it was always in Pink when I was at school
@Trials_By_Errors2 жыл бұрын
Indian Soldier in Failed Indian Revolt in 1958 said that They were defeated not by British Guns But Telegraph Cables.
@PeterJonesonline2 жыл бұрын
If the British were made to pay for the havoc they caused in the world, the bank of England’s coffers would be emptied quick smart.
@hegumax2 жыл бұрын
Without the innovations and advancements brought on by the British Empire the world would be much less wealthy healthy and free. We can't even imagine the extend of illness and poverty, slavery etc, that would probably still exist without the British influence on the world. Gutta percha is still around but small pox has been eradicated.
@syedmohammadaanasfarukh8902 жыл бұрын
And if the world was to pay Britain for abolishing slavery, building universities and libraries in every corner of its empire (look up the Jaffna Library, largest in Asia once and then destroyed by Sri lankans) and the technology it created, then the worlds' coffers would go dry.
@ambidrew86382 жыл бұрын
See Shashi Tharoors on you tube
@JohnPaul-oz9bx2 жыл бұрын
This video is exquisitely put together. It's fun and clear. Brings history to life. What a Tree, revolutionised the world. Protect the forests & Nature, think of how many species could revolutionise the world still 💪❤️🌍🙏
@saurabhmukherjee97572 жыл бұрын
Why the Delhi is Shown as Mosque? It is Hindu majority nation. Respect the Republic of India. It is world's largest Democracy.
@jimparsons68032 жыл бұрын
Knew of the medical uses. Did not know of its uses in undersea cables. My thanks. The observation that synthetic polymers came the rescue was well taken. I've heard that about 1/2 of the planet's physical wealth is because of and manifested in synthetic polymers. Ie: water bottles.
@thorium2222 жыл бұрын
"Oh look how useful that tree is! Let's make it extinct!"
@CrankyPantss2 жыл бұрын
Very interesting. Thanks for sharing this with us.
@tanveersingh54232 жыл бұрын
The nerve of western countries to lecture developing nations over environment problems.
@thedausthed2 жыл бұрын
The nerve of fools that think current knowledge can be ignored just because someone did things in the past without that knowledge!
@alokpandey95322 жыл бұрын
@@thedausthed some nerve of fools dont know about retrospective accountability.
@offthewall99882 жыл бұрын
Video by Archie Crofton Narration by Emily West thank you for this well-produced doco snippet
@22espec2 жыл бұрын
Alaska was british territory? Wow
@gailgordon14842 жыл бұрын
I don't believe it was.
@trekkingalbertosaur88702 жыл бұрын
Your graphic map at the start of the video... Baffin Island is part of Canada but Alaska was never.
@TheFrugalMombot2 жыл бұрын
Dang it! I mentioned Alaska, but missed that. I tip my hat to you
@sheenygarg97172 жыл бұрын
The British apparently went 'mad' for anything and everything they could use and consume as long as it was cheap , coming from far away places for which they never felt accountable. Lot of apologies are lined up for the Britishers!
@jamespaul46182 жыл бұрын
4:10 between 1850 and 1903 _ over 300,000 miles of undersea cables were laid around the world.
@zen4men2 жыл бұрын
My great-grandfather, Thomas J. Wilmot, for 20 years Superintendent of the Waterville Cable Station, Co Kerry, Ireland, invented the Wilmot Automatic Transmitter in 1890, which removed the human hand from the telegraph, greatly speeding the rate of transmissions. ...... My late father told me that Thomas was Superintendent, but never mentioned the transmitter - maybe he knew nothing of it. ...... I found it on Google. I had no idea that so much damage was done to Nature to weaterproof the cables. ...... So sad.
@javeriazafar98912 жыл бұрын
It's super informative.I appreciate the efforts (๑˙❥˙๑)!!
@nunyabiznes332 жыл бұрын
Only knew of it watching vids of silk painting where it's used to separate blocks of color.
@yankituk2 жыл бұрын
4:19 The question should have been ' Why didn't they tried to protect and preserve the tree .'
@zakihr33292 жыл бұрын
no the tree almost disappeared because of british gready capitalism and power ambitions... dont try to divert the narrative and saying its treathened by deforestation.
@jusufagung2 жыл бұрын
Getah perca? It is really spelled as ghuttah percha. Getah is sap, in Bahasa Indonesia and Malays.
@lorraineokie20542 жыл бұрын
Extrusion cable wires for Space And So much more
@kinngrimm2 жыл бұрын
Seeing how we deplete other ressources equally including those which replaced Gutta Percha, it maybe wise to try to keep this tree alife and well, we just may need it again.
@ritschardt2 жыл бұрын
Brisbane doesn't have droughts.
@iamgracefully2 жыл бұрын
Learned another great fact today! Thanks 😉🥂
@Zaihanisme2 жыл бұрын
How hard would it have been to learn the proper pronunciation of the Malay name of the tree? I'm so tired of western media outlets not doing their research and giving due respect to non-European languages. It's fucked up in an age of advanced machine translation and widespread internet communication.
@muhammadnurabdillah3712 жыл бұрын
They're just Lame
@berserk90852 жыл бұрын
I dont believe that you Racist pronounce foreign Words correct in your Language either.
@mquietsch67362 жыл бұрын
This is more difficult than one would think, seeing that many languages have or haven't got sounds present in other languages. I always scream when some basic town name from my own country gets mutilated in English. Only they really don't have the sounds in their language; native English speakers don't know how to move their tongues to produce the sound properly. Add to that the fact that if two English speakers want to communicate about that town they probably have to find a way of spelling it so it will be understood by the other English speaker. Some languages, take Japanese for an extreme example, cannot pronounce consonant groups. They need to insert a vowel between most consonants, so for instance the word "strange" would become "su-tu-ren-ji". Or think of Chinese: Are we really able to pronounce Xi Jin-Pings name properly? How do we move our tongue to pronounce the sound they describe as "X"? How do we even transliterate languages that don't use the Latin alphabet? Yes, these days we can use UTF16 if we put our mind to it (and I really agree it should be done universally FFS), but by using a non-Latin alphabet the words will become unreadable for anybody from a country used to another alphabet. And Yes, this thing would have to be observed from all sides. We write your words as you please; then you also please write our words as we please. So from now on write the big German city on the Rhine as Köln, not as Cologne or whatever. => Conclusion: Hardly practicable, isn't it?
@1pcfred2 жыл бұрын
That's why it is called english and not some foreign language. Because we speak english!
@mquietsch67362 жыл бұрын
I'm not quite sure what he's complaining about, but I have been thinking about it, and possibly he's annoyed at the narrator pronouncing gettah perca as "getta perka". I think it would have to be "getta percha" or "getta perja", the same as "kecap manis" is pronounced something like "ketchup manis". (This isn't Malay, as far as I know, but still.) I wrote a lengthy response to his post which was probably totally off his point because I hadn't grasped it 😄
@carlianovskyskeeterbaltaza56452 жыл бұрын
The map at the beginning of the video did not even bother to include the Philippine Map. I mean the Philippines is an archipelago and its hard to draw but at least put a dot or something to represent it.
@abhisheksoni29802 жыл бұрын
As a dentist, this just puts a huge smile on my face. And also, some worry that what shall we use after GP is extinct in wild!
@lightdark002 жыл бұрын
Ending left me confused why it would be used in teeth.
@drmaheshchauhan2 жыл бұрын
Hail Gutta Percha, so important for Dentists
@dude30992 жыл бұрын
Amazing work
@arxaaron2 жыл бұрын
Truly fascinating! I wasn't aware that international electronic communications were taking root (route) as underwater telegraph cables starting in the mid 1800's.
@STScott-qo4pw2 жыл бұрын
here's anudder odd fact: the structure of the internet as we know it from 1995 is old: it began one day in may, 1935, when a switch was thrown and RAF Fighter Command in the Home Ids. went active. it has been so ever since.
@arxaaron2 жыл бұрын
@@STScott-qo4pw Not sure that is an equivalent system without the internet protocols developed by DARPA in the 1970's/80,s
@CaptainFrandy2 жыл бұрын
Love these videos.
@WeighedWilson2 жыл бұрын
But the BBC tells us that droughts never happened before 1990.
@srisayektibawono3359 Жыл бұрын
we can still find gutta percha trees in tji petir Sukabumi, Indonesia
@royksk2 жыл бұрын
That’s an eye opener 😳
@iamsheel Жыл бұрын
Something sounds uncomfortably annoying with the audio
@alok200012 жыл бұрын
Fraud
@1964_AMU29 күн бұрын
Silk handmade scarfs : I use liquid Gutta to put surround the areas that I want to imbibe with colour.
@YayoLife2 жыл бұрын
What I like about Brits is at least there are some historical mistakes they acknowledge, and regret - and even apologize on. Also make a lesson out of.
@oneshotme2 жыл бұрын
Enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up
@jantariq67962 жыл бұрын
If u look back in history British behaved like scavengers...
@Simonjose72582 жыл бұрын
So if you've had a root canal, you probably have gutta percha in your skull. Wow.
@hamsterclamper2 жыл бұрын
Nice little story😊
@pinkpontiac123452 жыл бұрын
brilliant script writing!
@asmaben11142 жыл бұрын
Another story of colonial greed, and the disastrous influence of modern technology on the world...
@alokpandey95322 жыл бұрын
Britain was such a great empire!
@fuanasantuary12772 жыл бұрын
I used to thoughts that rubber tree was only Naturally found w ild from brazil.
@czamurimi396211 ай бұрын
My God.. the wonders of mother nature..excellent piece
@The123somerandomguy Жыл бұрын
2:23 bruh you cant call it peaceful protests when its 1848 of all times
@titaFUDO2 жыл бұрын
it makes me furious to discover once again the ignorance and greed of the British, having no remorse whatsoever
@SoapBoxMediaTV2 жыл бұрын
Well executed little piece.
@joedellinger94372 жыл бұрын
0:16 They have claimed Alaska!
@gailgordon14842 жыл бұрын
I don't think so .
@Cr0wgod2 жыл бұрын
Fart
@user-pr3iy7no5v2 жыл бұрын
100 million trees destroyed,,,,what a sad thing
@1pcfred2 жыл бұрын
No trees were destroyed they were all harvested.
@timkirkpatrick91552 жыл бұрын
Britain never controlled Alaska!
@aloysiushettiarachchi45232 жыл бұрын
Never knew the communication network was so large and covered a significant part of the world in 1850s. However, the word geta is nothing but the Sinhalese word 'geta' meaning roundish blob that must have come out of the tree. Similar words are 'hujjan' and 'hutan' meaning falling water and forest but perhaps used long time ago. So, the Brits have a habit of keeping everything secret, like the ARM!.
@metricstormtrooper2 жыл бұрын
Dear BBC, the telegraph in Australia landed at Darwin, then Palmerston thence to Adelaide, not into Perth western Australia as your graphic showed, Perth didn't have telegraph communication to to eastern states till much later. Do you research please.
@DemPilafian2 жыл бұрын
I suspect you are just looking at the map upside down.
@seanbirtwistle6492 жыл бұрын
yeah therer's some questionable things shown in this one lol. you'd think you'd know a little history when making a doco about history
@englishsteve14652 жыл бұрын
"The demand for truncheons". - really ? well, I wouldn't have guessed that little sentence in a literal million years ! 😃 Truncheons indeed, I mean for heavens sake, what the actual flip, you couldn't make it up !
@clivebradley26332 жыл бұрын
I had some root-canal work in the 80's, the canals were filled using tiny gutta-percha conical plugs
@krutibhavsar95342 жыл бұрын
Interesting story!...
@jools23232 жыл бұрын
Well, I'm a bit wiser now.
@tuanazman18922 жыл бұрын
IN MALAY GETAH PERCA
@conned10 ай бұрын
Its called " plunder"...
@nunyabiznes332 жыл бұрын
How was it used in truncheons? Do they just coat wood with it?
@xrysoryba2 жыл бұрын
The whole thing would be cast of it.
@nunyabiznes332 жыл бұрын
@@xrysoryba oh, it's gutta percha throughout? Must have been expensive back then. I thought they'd do something like with some lacquer items where it'll have a core and then build up with layers.
@xrysoryba2 жыл бұрын
@@nunyabiznes33 No, gutta percha was actually quite cheap at the time. It was also used to make revolver grips as it was cheaper than wood. I guess that's also why they used it for truncheons.
@nunyabiznes332 жыл бұрын
@@xrysoryba oh, ok. Guess it's cheap since they're practically getting it for free by destroying the rainforest. If only it can be harvested without killing the tree, like rubber and lacquer.
@tuanazman18922 жыл бұрын
MALAYSIA
@thomaspotterdotexe2 жыл бұрын
Oalah getah
@L14MA2 жыл бұрын
Bloody empire.
@UtilityCurve2 жыл бұрын
Can't help but notice that Alaska is an Imperial possession here.
@helmutzollner54962 жыл бұрын
Very interesting and surprising. Thank You for sharing.
@con.troller41832 жыл бұрын
Could they have tapped the trees instead of cutting them down?
@pamelahomeyer7482 жыл бұрын
Incredible video thank you
@iamgracefully2 жыл бұрын
Learned another great fact today! Thanks 😉🥂
@TheJonathanNewton2 жыл бұрын
Wonderful narrator’s voice!
@bacilluscereus12992 жыл бұрын
2:18 some things just don't change, huh❓
@richardlilley62742 жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing
@carlyleporter98622 жыл бұрын
This is worth watching.
@marioduddu4712 жыл бұрын
Very interesting 👍
@adriennefloreen2 жыл бұрын
Hi everyone, here's some life saving or health saving important information for you. This tree stuff might be in your root canal, and if you are allergic to latex that might be a problem. Because of this video I have to call the dentist that did my root canal tomorrow who knew I was allergic to latex and I will ask "is there anything from the gutta percha tree" in my tooth. I doubt they'll even know what I am talking about, if you have this tree stuff in your root canal you may want to get it removed. Thanks BBC, when the dentist inevitably says "Gut-what?" I might show them this video.
@mattlivingston21922 жыл бұрын
Usually, when people refer to a latex allergy, they are talking about a *rubber* latex allergy. Latex is simply the name given to a milky sap. Many trees and other plants have latex, but only the latex from the rubber tree (ficus elastica) is rubber latex. Gutta percha is the latex from an entirely different tree, so if you have it in your tooth and have not had an allergic reaction to it yet, you probably aren't allergic to gutta percha, even if you know you have a (rubber) latex allergy. Not all salt is sodium chloride, not all alcohol is ethanol, and not all latex is rubber.
@richardsimms2512 жыл бұрын
Very good
@HenryCasillas2 жыл бұрын
☮️
@meaghanorlinski84642 жыл бұрын
*Colonized. The word you are looking for its colonized, not just "controlled". You colonized and subjected all these territories and stripped them of their wealth.
@shivarajc74052 жыл бұрын
How beautifully white washed
@berserk90852 жыл бұрын
White washed like the Situation of untouchables or the Sati Practice in Hindu History?
@shivarajc74052 жыл бұрын
@@berserk9085 Yes, exactly like how Brits destroyed all the books and re wrote it so that smart people like u can read it.
@berserk90852 жыл бұрын
@@shivarajc7405 What Books? Hindutva Facist usually claim that the Mughals destroyed all Hindu Books. Now Im Confused.
@shivarajc74052 жыл бұрын
@@berserk9085 ya they did destroy most, but they didn't re write it.
@berserk90852 жыл бұрын
@@shivarajc7405 what they Re wrote specifically?
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@grovermartin68742 жыл бұрын
What an excellent, informative, thankfully brief video. Aside from a couple slips, essentially factual.
@loquat44-40 Жыл бұрын
I had come across the word gutta percha being used grips on handles and such. Such the gripes on revolver or semi automatic pistol, but did not know the origin. Sounds like a goood source genes for the GMO people to introduced into some readily growable, harvetable plant.