Stephen perry biography rubber band

It was no coincidence that Stephen Perry focussed on rubber, because he knew Thomas Hancock, who is now considered to be the “father of the British rubber industry”.

Stephen perry biography rubber band

Although Perry did not intervene in the latter’s priority dispute about vulcanisation with the American Charles Goodyear with his patent (“we make no claim to the preparation of the India rubber”), he benefitted from this dispute.

Because Hancock invested so much energy and time in the controversy with Goodyear that he failed to secure other rights for himself.

In 1820, he had obtained his first rubber patent, which enabled him to incorporate fine rubber threads in textile fabrics and thus to produce the predecessors of our present-day stretch fabrics.

A process that, incidentally, goes back to Johann Nepomuk Reithoffer (1781-1872), the master tailor from Moravia. Hancock then established a company in London that he called “James Lyne Hancock Ltd.&rdq