The construction of a military airplane used one-half ton of rubber a tank needed about one ton and a battleship, 75 tons. A modern nation could not hope to defend itself without rubber. automotive industry had grown rapidly to a size unmatched anywhere. Automobiles, a key element of American social life, could not run without rubber tires, and by the 1930s, the U.S. Nonetheless, these products were produced on a relatively small scale.īy contrast, natural rubber was a commodity of vast economic and military importance.
By 1914, natural dyes from plants had been replaced by synthetic dyes derived from coal tar, celluloid had taken the place of ivory, and Bakelite was replacing insect-based shellac. The quest to synthesize materials that can be substituted for naturally occurring substances has long been a challenge to chemists. Landmark Designation and Acknowledgments.Industry, Academe, and Government Partnership Solves the Rubber Supply Crisis.Response to the WWII Rubber Supply Crisis: The Rubber Reserve Company Origins of the Synthetic Rubber Industry in the U.S.locations, these companies, in collaboration with a network of researchers in government, academic, and industrial laboratories, developed and manufactured in record time enough synthetic rubber to meet the needs of the U.S. government sponsorship, a consortium of companies involved in rubber research and production united in a unique spirit of technical cooperation and dedication to produce a general purpose synthetic rubber, GR-S (Government Rubber-Styrene), on a commercial scale.
When the natural rubber supply from Southeast Asia was cut off at the beginning of World War II, the United States and its allies faced the loss of a strategic material. Goodrich Company, The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, United States Rubber Company. Dedicated August 29, 1998, at The University of Akron in Akron, Ohio, and the following contributing corporations: The Firestone Tire & Rubber Company, The B.
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