It has been officially confirmed that polymer banknotes are to enter our lives from 2016. The first polymer note to be produced is on a £5 note featuring Sir Winston Churchill, followed by a £10 version approximately a year later which is planned to display Jane Austen. The Bank of England’s Executive Director for Banking […]
In England, Joseph Priestley, best known for his discovery of oxygen, noted that pencil marks could be “rubbed out” by the substance. From this early use, rubber derived its name.
The first rubber paving to reduce traffic road noise was made in 1870 in London in front of the St Pancras hotel not to disturb the travellers.
The automotive area accounts for 65% of rubber production, with parts and components such as windscreen wipers, engine mountings, window seals, fan belts, etc.
1. Natural Rubber comes from a tree called the Hevea Brasiliensis which originally came from Brazil 2. There is a house made out of rubber called a Prefab Home Made from Secondhand Materials in The Netherlands! See More: here. 3. Rubber’s first documented use was by the Olmecs, who boiled the latex which came from […]
