The shell of the nut serves to make vases, and the Filamentary parts are spun into ropes and cables for ships, and even into coarse clothing.
"Adventures in the Philippine Islands"
Paul P. de La Gironière
And this Filamentary conductor required to be supported in a vacuum chamber so perfectly formed and constructed that during all those hours, and subjected as it is to varying temperatures, not a particle of air should enter to disintegrate the filament.
"Edison, His Life and Inventions"
Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin
On one occasion, however, when everything possible and impossible under the sun was being carbonized for lamp filaments, he allowed a handful of his bushy red beard to be taken for the purpose; and his laugh was the loudest when the Edison-Mackenzie hair lamps were brought up to incandescence-their richness in red rays being slyly attributed to the nature of the Filamentary material!
"Edison, His Life and Inventions"
Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin