Shortly after his return, he obtained commissions as agent for the Royal Mail ships and agent for an English mining company, shipping large quantities of India rubber, Brazil wood, hides, cedar, rosewood, coffee, indigo, and other products.
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Manufacturers espoused the wonders and benefits of different materials ( including various hardwoods, India rubber, and even glass ), insulated castors, and various attachments meant to " charge " the devices or insulate the user from malevolent spirits.
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In 1840, the English scientist Thomas Hancock designed inflatable craft using his new methods of rubber vulcanization and described his achievements in " The Origin and Progress of India Rubber Manufacture in England " published a few years later.
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Some of the earlier ones those originally used on the Stanhope and Tyne Railway were of india rubber solution, a material found to swell and become soft in wet weather, and therefore unfitted to stand the friction on the inclines.
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Deitch regularly contributed comical, psychedelia-tinged comic strips ( featuring the flower child " Sunshine Girl " and " The India Rubber Man " ) to New York City's premier underground newspaper, the " East Village Other ", beginning in 1967.
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In 1889 he moved to New York City, where he started his first magazine " The India Rubber World ", He also founded the magazine " Hardware " in 1890, The " Engineering Magazine " in 1891, and The " Engineering Index " in 1895.
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"' William John " Billy " Wedlock "'( 28 October 1880 25 January 1965 ), also known as " Fatty " or the " India Rubber Man ", was a pub ( now demolished ) opposite the ground was where he lived and worked for 43 years.
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As Capon-Heaton and Company they manufactured India-rubber at Lifford until the mid-1890s when the firm moved to Hazelwell, the next mill downstream where they continued until acquired in 1964 by Avon India Rubber Co . In 1978-9 The Stirchley Industrial Estate was built over the original mill and mill pool site.
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Periodically, a character identified only as the Man in an India Rubber Suit ( unofficially representing the Berlin-based Society for Culture and Science of the Jews ) surfaces out of the North River-- as the Hudson was then known-- and into the plot to make his own ethnographic study of New York's Jews.
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As he heads toward a booth, accompanied by two sportswriters who have covered his activities for 35 years, it is difficult to believe he once was the " India Rubber Man, " known far and wide for the tumbles he would take at breakneck speed and the gymnasium walls he would challenge with his body.
