The Akron Stories Project continues to commemorate the history of the rubber industry in the city by recording and sharing stories from some who worked in the industry and from friends and families of ...

Cheap, reliable, and strong, the rubber band is one of the world’s most ubiquitous products. It holds papers together, prevents long hair from falling in a face, acts as a reminder around a wrist, is ...

A wise man once said that no matter where you are, particularly when you're on vacation, you can't escape stories about rubber. Those words—written in this very space five months ago by RPN Editor ...

In the 1770s, Vidya Rajan writes in her book Rubber: The Social and Natural History of an Indispensable Substance, an English engineer called Edward Nairne was believed to have used a piece of rubber ...

Oral-history interviews with innovators and leaders of the early rubber industry collected by the ACS Rubber Division are now available in a digital audio format and accessible through the Summit ...