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Charles Goodyear (December 29, 1800 – July 1, 1860) was an American self-taught chemist [1] [2] and manufacturing engineer who developed vulcanized rubber, for which he received patent number 3633 from the United States Patent Office on June 15, 1844.
Sheet of synthetic rubber coming off the rolling mill at the plant of Goodrich (1941) World War II poster about synthetic rubber tires. Production of synthetic rubber in the United States expanded greatly during World War II since the Axis powers controlled nearly all the world's limited supplies of natural rubber by mid-1942, following the Japanese conquest of most of Asia, particularly in ...
Year Event Reference 1839 Eduard Simon, a German apothecary, discovers polystyrene. [2] 1844: Thomas Hancock patents the vulcanization of rubber in Britain immediately followed by Charles Goodyear in United States. [3] 1856: Parkesine, the first member of the Celluloid class of compounds and considered the first man-made plastic, is patented by ...
Thiokol was an American corporation concerned initially with rubber and related chemicals, and later with rocket and missile propulsion systems. Its name is a portmanteau of the Greek words for sulfur (Greek: θεῖον, romanized: theion) and glue (Greek: κόλλα, romanized: kolla), an allusion to the company's initial product, Thiokol polymer.
Fritz Hofmann (Friedrich Carl Albert) (2 November 1866 in Kölleda – 22 October 1956 in Hanover) was a German organic chemist who first synthesized synthetic rubber. Hofmann studied chemistry in Rostock. [1] On September 12, 1909, he filed a patent for the manufacture of the world's first synthetic rubber. [2]
The first synthetic polymer was invented in 1869 by John Wesley Hyatt. He created a substitute for ivory from elephant tusks, which was being used at the time to make billiard balls.
1924 – Pyrex invented by scientists at Corning Incorporated, a glass with a very low coefficient of thermal expansion 1931 – synthetic rubber called neoprene developed by Julius Nieuwland ( see also: E.K. Bolton , Wallace Carothers )
Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. - Consumer Tires, Technical Center, Tire Molds Gadsden, Alabama, United States: MD/1MD: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. - Passenger car tires Hebron, Ohio, United States: P1/1P1: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. - Development Center [74] Houston, Texas, United States: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. - Synthetic Rubber