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- The history of rubber begins with the Olmecs, a Mesoamerican indigenous culture, who took the latex which they found from native trees, boiled it, and used in a ballgame similar to today’s games basketball and football; this was the first documented use of rubber.
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Apr 30, 2018 · Written by a social and cultural historian at the University of Akron (the city that was long called the “rubber capital of the world”), this short book examines the history of rubber, mainly in th...
- Peter Morris
- 2018
1000 BC – 300 AD. The first known use of rubber was by the Olmec, the first major civilisation in Mexico. They used natural latex from the Hevea tree to make rubber used to make balls for a Mesoamerican ballgame.
May 5, 2015 · Summary. Natural rubber is one of the most significant export crops from the tropics, but since the 1940s rubber has been produced from both natural latex and from petroleum. International markets for rubber expanded rapidly after the late 1880s, led by the newly expanding tire industry.
First millennium BC – Mexico – First evidence of the Mesoamerican ballgame. 6th century – Mexico and Central America – Aztecs/Mayans. Balls. Dipped Feet to make shoes. Coated Fabrics. Pictures: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoamerican_ballgame.
A World History of Rubber helps readers understand and gain new insights into the social and cultural contexts of global production and consumption, from the nineteenth century to today, through the fascinating story of one commodity.
Jan 30, 2016 · January 30, 2016. Almost all of the world’s rubber comes from Southeast Asia, but that’s not because it’s the native habitat of rubber trees. The history of how the region came to be a global...
Important progress toward a true rubber industry came at the beginning of the 19th century from the separate experiments of a Scottish chemist, Charles Macintosh, and an English inventor, Thomas Hancock. Macintosh’s contribution was the rediscovery, in 1823, of coal-tar naphtha as a cheap and effective solvent.
