# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-hancock
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:36:13.778Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-hancock"
name: "Thomas Hancock"
slug: "thomas-hancock"
description: "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."
tagline: "English manufacturing engineer in the rubber industry (1786-1865)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1786-05-08"
deathDate: "1865-03-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.1
  momentum:             8.506493506493507
  historical:           8.784633333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hancock"
    title: "Thomas Hancock"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hancock_(opfinder)"
    title: "Thomas Hancock (opfinder)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hancock"
    title: "Thomas Hancock"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hancock_(inventor)"
    title: "Thomas Hancock (inventor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hancock_(inventeur)"
    title: "Thomas Hancock (inventeur)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hancock"
    title: "Thomas Hancock"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hancock"
    title: "Thomas Hancock"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hancock"
    title: "Thomas Hancock"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hancock"
    title: "Thomas Hancock"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hancock_(shpik%C3%ABs)"
    title: "Thomas Hancock (shpikës)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2057432"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump