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Rubber
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![Rubber](/content/images/size/w600/2023/06/super-termanais---1.jpeg)
![On Guayule](/content/images/size/w300/2024/05/service-pnp-fsa-8c36000-8c36200-8c36269v.jpg)
![A More Fun Ride](/content/images/size/w300/2023/10/RHerse_Tire_Mold.jpg)
A More Fun Ride
Jan Heine on the physics of pneumatic tires, the rise of gravel cycling, and his role in the bike industry.…
![Cars.](/content/images/size/w300/2023/10/flat-fix-1-1.jpg)
![On Pneumatic Tires.](/content/images/size/w300/2023/09/service-pnp-fsa-8c01000-8c01000-8c01086v.jpg)
On Pneumatic Tires.
Pneumatic tires were invented (and then promptly forgotten) in 1846. Then, they became perhaps the quintessential twentieth-century transportation technology.…
![On Hevea.](/content/images/size/w300/2023/06/nypl.digitalcollections.5e66b3e8-f88c-d471-e040-e00a180654d7.001.w.jpg)
![On Naphtha](/content/images/size/w300/2023/06/pines---1--1-.jpeg)
On Naphtha
How naphtha -- one of the first fossil fuel derivatives ever made -- played a key role in the commercialization of rubber.…
![On Vulcanization](/content/images/size/w300/2023/06/old-type-hand-rubber-cutting---1.jpeg)
On Vulcanization
On Charles Goodyear and the unlikely discovery of the vulcanization process.…
![On Latex](/content/images/size/w300/2023/05/3925531643_03b0a75aae.jpg)
![A Supply Chain in the Jungle](/content/images/size/w300/2023/05/foxconn-manaus.jpg)
A Supply Chain in the Jungle
How did Foxconn arrive at the inaccessible heart of the Amazon rainforest?…