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Thomas Hancock.
English manufacturing engineer in the rubber industry (1786-1865)
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About 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.
Everything about Thomas Hancock →- Occupation
- inventor, businessperson
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- May 8, 1786
- Died
- March 26, 1865