The Biography of Rubber (How Did That Get Here?) - Hardcover
This work is for ages 8-14. This fascinating new book explores how one of the world's most important products starts out as sap from a tropical tree and ends up as tires on your family car. Find out how this sap was used in ancient times, how early rubber barons prospered in South America, how they treated their labourers, and the environmental dangers of producing both natural and synthetic rubber. Other topics include: What is a commodity?; the differences between synthetic and natural rubber; how latex is harvested and rubber is made; the exploding seeds of the rubber tree; uses of rubber, including tires, erasers, elastics, bouncy balls, and silly putty; stories of different inventors such as John Priestly, Charles Goodyear, Robert Thomson, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford and more.
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- PublisherCrabtree Classics
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0778724867
- ISBN 13 9780778724865
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages32
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Provides a history of the elastic substance, chronicling the shift in large-scale trade and cultivation from Amazonia to the British Empire's Southeast Asian colonies, as well as describing the modern rubber industry. Former library book. Solid binding. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Ex-Library. Seller Inventory # 123478703
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