Thomas Hancock

Standard Name: Hancock, Thomas

Connections

No connections available.

Timeline

1823

Charles Macintosh of Glasgow patented a process of waterproofing textiles (by dissolving rubber in naphtha); in time his name became attached to the product.

Adburgham, Alison. Shops and Shopping 1800-1914: Where, and in What Manner the Well-Dressed Englishwoman Bought Her Clothes. Allen and Unwin, 1964.

81-3

November 1843

Thomas Hancock of England patented a process for vulcanizing rubber; vulcanizing improved rubber's resistance to temperature extremes.

Derry, Thomas Kingston, and Trevor I. Williams. A Short History of Technology From the Earliest Times to A.D. 1900. Clarendon, 1960.

527-528

Fryer, Peter. The Birth Controllers. Secker and Warburg, 1965.

1844

Thomas Hancock announced his process of vulcanizing rubber; in the same week Charles Goodyear perfected this same process in the United States.

Adburgham, Alison. Shops and Shopping 1800-1914: Where, and in What Manner the Well-Dressed Englishwoman Bought Her Clothes. Allen and Unwin, 1964.

Texts

No bibliographical results available.