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Dr. Daniel Graham presents "“Rubber and the History of Technology in the Early American Republic”
Many historians only acknowledge the significance of rubber in the context of the automobile revolution, but by the 1850s rubber was already used to make goods across a broad range of industries. In many of these applications, there was no alternative material that combined the flexibility, elasticity, impermeability, and abrasion resistance of rubber. This global industry of the 1850s had its origin in transatlantic scientific and industrial networks which developed from 1780 to the 1830s. Science, technology, institutions, business practices, and the industry-knowledge of historical actors evolved together to create new paradigms of industrial research and manufacturing practice. Probing patent records, court proceedings, the writings of inventors and businessmen, and the material culture of rubber manufacturing in the early American Republic, this presentation will shed new light on the history of an important and versatile commodity, while uncovering the process of invention in early America.
Dr. Daniel Graham is an historian of science, technology, and medicine. He has taught at Catholic University, Hood College, Florida Gulf Coast University, and Slippery Rock University. Currently, Graham is pursuing his research on the intersections between empire, science and technology, and business practices through a fellowship through the Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry at the Science History Institute.

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