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Charles Goodyear was born on December 29, 1800, in New Haven, Connecticut, the son of Amasa Goodyear, and the oldest of six children.His father was a descendant of Stephen Goodyear, successor to Governor Eaton as the head of the company London Merchants, who founded the colony of New Haven in 1638.
Synthetic rubber, like most other polymers, is made from various petroleum-based monomers. Some synthetic rubbers are less sensitive to ozone cracking than natural rubber. Natural rubber is sensitive because of the double bonds in its chain structure, but some synthetic rubbers do not possess these bonds and so are more resistant to ozone cracking.
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]
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 Alexander Parkes. [4] 1869
The goals of the synthetic rubber project were to either synthetically produce the isoprene monomer, or combine multiple monomers to produce a suitable synthetic substitute for rubber. Spence, together with Dr. Alexander Clark, provided a method for producing synthetic isoprene, via the dehydration of 2,3 dimethylbut-1-en-3-ol and other ...
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.
In April 1930, one of Carothers' staff, Dr. Arnold M. Collins, isolated chloroprene, a liquid which polymerized to produce a solid material that resembled rubber. This product was the first synthetic rubber and is known today as Neoprene. [18] [19]
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