Thomas Hancock founded the rubber industry in Great Britain. He was born at Marlborough in Wiltshire, England, the third of twelve children of a lumber merchant and cabinet maker. Around 1815 Hancock went into the stagecoach business with one of his...

When rubber was first introduced to Europe from the New World, it was considered a marvelous novelty. Early explorers were amazed to find Caribbean natives playing games with bouncing balls made from the milky white juice (latex) of certain trees. A...

An irreversible process in which a rubber compound is heated under pressure, resulting in a chemical change in its structure. The process to which shoes with raw rubber components are subjected in order to permanently bond the components...

Vulcanization refers to a specific curing process of rubber involving high heat and the addition of sulfur. It is a chemical process in which polymer molecules are linked to other polymer molecules by atomic bridges composed of sulfur atoms. The end...

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Portland Trail Blazers president and general manager Steve Patterson unexpectedly resigned Thursday, the team said.Tod Leiweke, chief executive officer of the Seattle Seahawks, will take over Patterson's duties in the interim while a replacement is found, said Vulcan Inc., team owner Paul Allen's company.Patterson has...

Vulcan Materials, the nation's top producer of construction aggregates, hasn't completed its acquisition of Florida Rock Industries, but already it's looking for more deals.Consolidation has been ongoing for years in the construction materials industry, but there are still more opportunities for acquisitions, says Vulcan VMC...

Officially it's the South Lake Union Streetcar. Within the old Cascade neighborhood, part of the area to be served by the new line, it's popularly known as the South Lake Union Trolley _ or SLUT.At Kapow! Coffee, 100 T-shirts bearing the words "Ride the SLUT"...