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Thomas Hancock

English manufacturing engineer in the rubber industry (1786-1865) · Scientists · Died at 78

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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