History Of The Tire
(More Interesting Then You Think)
By: Heather Kovach
With everything being made over sea's today its nice to see some good old American products.
3,000 years ago in Central America where our tale first starts, was a tree referred to as the "crying tree". This tree produced Latex that the natives used for clothing and crafts. Once Europe discovered the new world a chemist named Charles Macintosh became fascinated with Ideas of how to used this product. They created a substances called Macintosh (named after its creator). The only problem with the substance was it was still to breakable, and tore easy. Creating the first successful tire was along way away, but with the Macintosh they produced some elastic belts, gloves, shoes, nothing to different then the natives of central America. Charles Macintosh, knowing this discovery would one day change the world tried to hide how he created the substance until in 1837 he was forced to patent it.
The next step in history was made by Charles Goodyear. Goodyear's Forge workhouse had failed during 1828-1829 because of the depression, he was desperate for a solution and soon found it. Goodyear used sulphur combined with the latex to vulcanize the rubber. He patented his creation in 1842, but it wasn't until the following year that it really took off. this lead to a gold rush like explosion in Brazil where the plant was abundant.
It wasn't until 1911 that the first successful tire was created. Phillip Strauss combined the tire and air filled inner tubes, creating a sensation in the automotive world, tires had been created before then, but held a short life and was no where near impressive.
America has a proud history of innovations like the tire, though within the last few decades we've stopped producing goods and started importing them instead. this has had its consequences. So support your small business owners for a brighter tomorrow, and remember to buy Products marked USA.
-Your Patriotic friends at Maryland Tire House -
(More Interesting Then You Think)
With everything being made over sea's today its nice to see some good old American products.3,000 years ago in Central America where our tale first starts, was a tree referred to as the "crying tree". This tree produced Latex that the natives used for clothing and crafts. Once Europe discovered the new world a chemist named Charles Macintosh became fascinated with Ideas of how to used this product. They created a substances called Macintosh (named after its creator). The only problem with the substance was it was still to breakable, and tore easy. Creating the first successful tire was along way away, but with the Macintosh they produced some elastic belts, gloves, shoes, nothing to different then the natives of central America. Charles Macintosh, knowing this discovery would one day change the world tried to hide how he created the substance until in 1837 he was forced to patent it.
The next step in history was made by Charles Goodyear. Goodyear's Forge workhouse had failed during 1828-1829 because of the depression, he was desperate for a solution and soon found it. Goodyear used sulphur combined with the latex to vulcanize the rubber. He patented his creation in 1842, but it wasn't until the following year that it really took off. this lead to a gold rush like explosion in Brazil where the plant was abundant.
It wasn't until 1911 that the first successful tire was created. Phillip Strauss combined the tire and air filled inner tubes, creating a sensation in the automotive world, tires had been created before then, but held a short life and was no where near impressive.
America has a proud history of innovations like the tire, though within the last few decades we've stopped producing goods and started importing them instead. this has had its consequences. So support your small business owners for a brighter tomorrow, and remember to buy Products marked USA.
-Your Patriotic friends at Maryland Tire House -
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