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Mesoamericans used natural rubber for balls, and figurines. [1] 1000 BCE: First written evidence of Shellac. Middle Ages: Europeans used treated cow horns as translucent material for windows. Japanese and Chinese use ox horns for the same purpose, as well as for shades of oil lamps.
The Amazon rubber cycle or boom (Portuguese: Ciclo da borracha, Brazilian Portuguese: [ˈsiklu da buˈʁaʃɐ]; Spanish: Fiebre del caucho, pronounced [ˈfjeβɾe ðel ˈkawtʃo]) was an important part of the socioeconomic history of Brazil and Amazonian regions of neighboring countries, being related to the commercialization of rubber and the genocide of indigenous peoples.
The timeline of historic inventions is a chronological list of particularly ... Rubber, [201 ] Mesoamerican ... History of communication; Timeline of agriculture and ...
The United Rubber, Cork, Linoleum and Plastic Workers of America (URW) was a labor union representing workers involved in manufacturing using specific materials in the United States and Canada. The union was founded in 1935 [ 1 ] as the United Rubber Workers of America and was chartered by the American Federation of Labor (AFL) on September 12.
1931 – synthetic rubber called neoprene developed by Julius Nieuwland (see also: E.K. Bolton, Wallace Carothers) 1931 – Nylon developed by Wallace Carothers; 1935 – Langmuir–Blodgett film coating of glass was developed by Katharine Burr Blodgett, creating "invisible glass" which is >99% transmissive
Dunlop Ltd. (formerly Dunlop Rubber) [1] was a British multinational company involved in the manufacture of various natural rubber goods. Its business was founded in 1889 by Harvey du Cros and he involved John Boyd Dunlop who had re-invented and developed the first pneumatic tyre: he invented the first practical pneumatic tyres for his child's tricycle.
Akron aims to bounce back, using its rubber and plastics history as springboard to future. Gannett. Amanda Garrett, Akron Beacon Journal. December 14, 2023 at 6:05 AM.
The Seiberling Rubber Company was an American tire manufacturer for motor vehicles. Seiberling Tires ad from 1922. In 1898 Frank A. Seiberling acquired an old strawboard factory in Akron, Ohio and founded the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company (naming it after Charles Goodyear, the inventor of vulcanized rubber). He served as the company's ...