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Evolution of Rubber

            
             Not until recently it was originally thought that rubber was first discovered in Europe in the nineteenth century; when in fact its roots stem back to the year sixteen-hundred B.C. A professor at M.I.T. by the name of Dorothy Hosler and a couple of her associates started to do some research and they traced back the usage of rubber back to the Mayan's of Mesoamerica. Mesoamerica is now known to the world as South America.
             The Mayan's discovered a plant that produced a sap that had sticky and springy characteristics. This plant today is now commonly known as a rubber plant. This sap was known as latex which the Mayan's used to bind things together like ax heads to their handles. Once the latex material is exposed to the air it becomes even more durable and had a better springy quality to it. The latex by itself is not very useful although; it is not that durable and tended to not stay in the shape that it was molded into.
             After experimenting with the latex the Mayan's eventually found out that if they mixed the latex with the juice of morning glory vines the new substance became twice as durable, more elastic, and a lot less brittle. The good thing about mixing the sap with the morning glory juice is that these two plants tended to grow close to one another which made it easier to harvest them.
             For several centuries afterwards this rubber substance was only slight changed over time. The only attempts to make the rubber better was by adding different plant juices to the latex sap, but the process never had a dramatic impact on the rubber's qualities.
             In 1736 several sheets of rubber were sent over to France from South America. When people first saw this new material they were fascinated by it. They couldn't understand how a solid material could have the qualities that it had. Once the idea of this new material caught on people started to invent new ways of using the rubber material.


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