Rubber / directed by Mimi Soeteman, Lee Thean-Jeje, and Karan Low.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Low, Karan., Director.

Smith, Grub., Narrator.

Soeteman, Mimi., Director.

Soeteman, Mimi., Producer.

Thean-Jeje, Lee., Director.

Series:

Academic Video Online

Quirky science ; Series 1, Episode 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rubber--History.

Rubber.

Rubber, Artificial.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (25 min.)

Place of Publication:

Melbourne, Victoria : Looking Glass International, 2011.

Language Note:

In English.

Original language in English.

Summary:

Reveals that South American tribes used rubber long before the world got to know about it; when Columbus witnessed Haitian natives playing ball, he found himself mesmerized by the bouncing goo. Discovers how Charles Goodyear learned the secret of stabilizing rubber, by dropping a lump of natural rubber on his wife's stove. Explores this invention during the Industrial Revolution and the rubber boom, which turned a remote Brazilian jungle town into one of the richest cities on earth. Shows how one researcher, looking for something to replace the rubber in tires, discovered a material that can stop bullets, Kevlar.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed July 1, 2014).

OCLC:

885257970