Hancock, T.

Japanese: Hancock,T.(英語表記)HancockT
Hancock, T.

…Starting out uneducated, Goodyear devoted himself to improving the quality defects of natural rubber, and in 1839, accidentally discovered the hardening of rubber when he left a mixture of raw rubber, sulfur, and white lead next to a stove, laying the technical foundation for the rubber industry that would later become the industry. Thomas Hancock (1786-1865), a British rubber factory owner, improved on this technology, named it "vulcanisation", and obtained a British patent in 1843. Goodyear's vulcanisation method was patented in the United States the following year, but he spent the latter half of his life fighting lawsuits over the patent, and died in poverty without profiting from his invention. …

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…無学から出発し,天然ゴムの品質欠陥の改良に専心,1839年,生ゴムと硫黄・鉛白の混合物をストーブのわきに放置しておいたことから偶然ゴムの硬化現象を発見,のちのゴム工業の技術的基盤をつくった。イギリスのゴム工場経営者ハンコックThomas Hancock(1786‐1865)は,この技術を一部改良し〈加硫valcanisation〉と命名し,1843年イギリスの特許を得た。グッドイヤーの加硫法は翌年アメリカの特許となったが,後半生は特許をめぐる訴訟に明け暮れ,みずからの発明から利益を得ることなく貧苦のうちに没した。…

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