Henry William Bruton, Dictionary of National Biography… (1912)
“ In 1860 he invented a machine for the preparation of crude gutta-percha, and established a factory at Vauxhall Cross, and between that year and 1889 took out many patents for perfecting processes connected with the use of gutta-percha. ”
Henry William Bruton, Dictionary of National Biography… (1912)
“ Sotheby in 1906, the sale occupying twenty-one days and realising nearly 15,000l. Truman also busied himself with religious and social questions, on which he wrote with sense and conviction. He died at Home Field, Putney, on 8 April 1905. ”
