The history of rubber can be traced back to a strange plant discovered by the ancient people of Mesoamerica.
This plant could produce a peculiar liquid, which was viscous and malleable and could be used to make various tools and toys. By the 16th century, Europeans began to establish trade relations with the people of Mesoamerica, importing this strange plant from there.
However, the true application of rubber came in the late 17th century when the Frenchman Marquesas turned rubber into a rubber eraser for wiping pen caps, and thus some people called rubber "rubbing rubber".
In the early 18th century, the British discovered that rubber had the properties of elasticity and extensibility, and it could be used to make items such as rubber bands and rubber balls. However, the breakthrough progress in the application of rubber was made by the American Dana.
In 1839, he developed vulcanized rubber, which solved the problems of rubber becoming hard at high temperatures and soft at low temperatures, thus enabling the wide application of rubber.
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