Goodyear Tire & Rubber has been granted a patent for a low-cost vulcanization accelerator that improves cure rates and reduces scorch in rubber compositions. The accelerator, a monofunctional thiuram ...

Older car tires used to use inner tubes for their tires, but tubeless designs have reigned supreme in the modern era. Here's why the switch was made.

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Charles Goodyear (1800–1860) invented “vulcanized” rubber in 1839 when he accidentally left a mixture of India rubber, sulfur and lead oxide on a ...

One hundred years ago last week a persevering Yankee named Charles Goodyear brewed some crude rubber, sulfur and white lead on his kitchen stove, discovered vulcanization. That invention changed ...