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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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