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Rubber

1966 Beatles' "Rubber Soul," album goes #1 and stays #1 for 6 weeks 1957 Harrison Ford, silent screen actor (Rubber Tires), dies at 73 1948 1st use of synthetic rubber in asphaltic concrete, Akron, Ohio 1945 35 Jews sacrifice their lives to blow up Nazi rubber plant in Silesia 1944 Martin Fried, rocker, Cyrkle-Red Rubber Ball 1943 Manufacturers get permission to use synthetic rubber for baseball core 1940 1st synthetic rubber tire exhibited Akron Oh 1940 The synthetic rubber tire unveiled 1931 1st commercially produced synthetic rubber manufactured 1931 Dupont introduces synthetic rubber 1930 Synthetic rubber 1st produced 1929 Dunlop Latex Development Laboratories made foam rubber 1921 John B Dunlop, Scottish inventor air tire (Dunlop Rubber), dies at 81 1918 Leonard Mullens, rubber physicist 1899 Rubber heel patented by Humphrey O'Sullivan 1868 Harvey S Firestone, Industrialist, where the rubber meets the road 1865 Thomas Hancock, pioneer of rubber industry (Stoke Newington), dies 1847 Robert Thompson patents rubber tire 1846 Robert Thomson obtains an English patent on a rubber tire 1845 Rubber band patents 1845 Rubber band patented by Stephen Perry of London 1844 Goodyear patents vulcanization of rubber 1840 John Boyd Dunlop, Scotland, developer, pneumatic rubber tire 1837 Charles Goodyear obtains his 1st rubber patent 1824 J. W. Goodrich introduces rubber galoshes to public 1821 James Boyd patents Rubber Fire Hose 1813 Rubber is patented 1800 Charles Goodyear, inventor, vulcanization process for rubber 1786 Thomas Hancock, founded British rubber industry

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