ISBN: - 978-93-88936-09-5 1896 : H.J.Doughty develops the first tyre curing press. 1904 : S.C Mote of the Indian Rubber Gutta and Telegraph Works in England 1906 : George Oenslager discovers organic accelerators for reducing vulcansisation time and the chemicals. 1909 : German chemist Fritz Hofmann patents development of poly-isoprene synthetic rubber (SR). 1910 : Dunlop Co., makes the first motor car tyre. 1916 : Fernley. H. Invents the internal mixer which revolutionises rubber mixing/compounding. 1917 : The first truck tyre is made. 1920 : Untied develops the first latex foam rubber. 1922 : Thermal process for making carbon black is introduced. 1923 : Utermark discovers processing of latex concentrates by centrifuging.1924: Herbert. A. Winkelmann and Harold Gray develop the first commercially feasible antioxidants, to reduce rubber’s degradation from exposure to oxygen, ozone and ultraviolet radiation. 1925 : The Rubber Research Institute of Malaya, the premier institution devoted to research on NR in the world, comes into being. 1930 : Du Pont commercialises the SR, duprene, the polymeric structure of which is similar to NR. It is renamed neoprene in 1936. 1937 : Dunlop Rubber Co., sets up the Ist Indian tyre factory in Bengal. 1947 : Rubber is used first in roads on Rue Ferrier in Geneva. The Rubber (Production and Marketing) Act comes into force in India and the Indian Rubber Board is constituted under it. 1952 :The first liquid rubber, ‘Rubbone’, is commercially made.NR bridge bearings made. 1960 : IISRP (the International Institute of Synthetic Rubber Producers) comes into being. 1961 : A new family of SRs consisting mainly of 3 types called ‘stereo regular’ emerges. 1964 : The International Standards Organisation (ISO) releases the draft standards for the technical grading and presentation of NR. 1974 : First death due to latex allergy reactions is reported from US. 1975 : The Rubber Board of India releases the high-yield (2500kg/ha) RRII 105 for commercial planting. 18
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