Manchester's Contribution to the Development of the Rubber Industry

History of the Rubber Industry, edited by P. Schidrowitz and Dawson T.R. , 1952 Dawson T.R. , Chronology of Rubber History

D'Anghiera P.M. , 1530, Opus Epistolarum

Torquemada F.J. , 1615

de la Condamine C.M. , 1736, introduces word “caoutchouc” to describe samples sent to Paris. Fresneau C.F., 1747 discovered Hevea Brasiliensas in French Guiana. Note. These points were announced by Condamine to the French Academy in Paris in 1751

Priestley J. , Theory and Practice of Perspective, 1770

Jones F. , History of the Rubber Industry, Chapter 1

Makepeace C.E. , Science and Technology in Manchester. Two Hundred Years of the Lit. and Phil., 1984

Professors Charles and Robert made ascensions in balloon made with silk coated envelopes from rubber dissolved in turpentine filled with H ²

BP 1751, 1790

Clow N.L. , Clow A. , Chemistry and Industry, 1943, 104

Syme J. , Annals of Philosophy, Glasgow, 1818

Macintosh C. , BP 4804, 1823

White J.L. , Charles Macintosh of Glasgow: His Enterprises and the Foundation of the Rubber Industry, Journal IRI, Vol. 8, No. 4, August 1974, 148

Hancock T. , Personal narrative of the Origin and progress of the Caoutchouc or India-Rubber Manufacture in England, 1857

Progress in Rubber and Plastics Technology, Vol. 9, No. 4, 1993, 321

Clark S. , Industrial Archaeology Review, Vol. 2, Number 3, 1978

1837 Hancock became full partner in Charles Macintosh & Co.

1838 Fire at Charles Macintosh & Co. factory - the Birley textile factory was unaffected

Atkin J.R. , Michelin Tyre Company Ltd., Stoke-on-Trent, Private Communication to J.M. Buist, 28th May 1974

1832, Dawson T.R. , History of the Rubber Industry, 1952, page xiv

Twiss D.F. , History of the Rubber Industry, 1952, 118

Faraday M. , Lectures at Royal Institution, London

Goodyear C. , 1836, Treated surface of rubber with nitric acid, “(Acid gas process)”

Goodyear C. , USP 240, Acid gas process for vulcanising rubber

Hayward N. , USP 1090, Patent for solarisation of rubber with sulphur

Goodyear C. , Gum Elastic

Brockendon (Partner of Hancock) showed Hancock pieces of rubber from America, unaffected by cold, solvents, heat or oils and applied the word vulcanisation to this transformation

Hancock T. , BP 9952, 1843 enrolled 21.5.1844

Goodyear C. , USP 3633, 15.6.1844, Patented Vulcanisation

Lunn R.W. , History of the Rubber Industry, 1952, 23

Parkes A , BP 9807, 1843, Use of carbon disulphide as solvent

Parkes A , BP 11147, 1846, Vulcanisation with S2Cl2 in CS2

Parkes A , Contributions to developing the plastics industry

Buist J.M. , Progress in Rubber and Plastics Technology, Vol. 2, No. 3, 1986, 17

Parris W.A. , Chapter 26 in History of the Rubber Industry Manchester's Contribution to the Development of the Rubber Industry