Rubber

Rubber is a product manufactured in a Chemical Factory. Petroleum is the material required to make it. It can be used as material for other products.
==History==
Christopher Columbus brought the first rubber balls produced by American Indians to Spain. It took another few centuries before the American Charles Goodyear chanced upon a method for producing a dry, smooth and elastic mass of India rubber. In 1839 he succeeded in vulcanizing rubber by means of sulfur and thereby obtained a waterproof and durable substance which was also resistant to temperature changes. In 1870 the US surgeon Franklin Goodrich continued these investigations and produced the first rubber fire hoses. Private garden hoses have been available on the market since 1880.
==Did You Know That?==
Everyone can finally buy waterproof clothes and shoes. Rubber is used in all possible fields of life - fashion, the car-industry, toy-production, etc. People pounce on it like on plastic, aluminium and nylon, for the petroleum-based product is an extremely durable and multi-purpose material. Rubber was in particular demand at the start of the 20th century.
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