Thomas Hancock

Inventor

1786 – 1865

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Who was Thomas Hancock?

Thomas Hancock, elder brother of inventor Walter Hancock, was an English self-taught manufacturing engineer who founded the British rubber industry. He invented the masticator, a machine that shredded rubber scraps and which allowed rubber to be recycled after being formed into blocks or sheets.

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Born
May 8, 1786
Marlborough, Wiltshire
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Nationality
  • England
Died
Mar 26, 1865
London

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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