WHAT IS RUBBER
Rubber is a fiber obtained from plant sap. Natural rubber is made from the sap of trees. Synthetic rubber is produced from oil by the chemical industry. Both types are versatile substances.
It grows in Brazil, Ceylon, Mexico, Java Island, Central and East Africa. For hundreds of years, natural rubber has been obtained by making scratches on the rubber tree, collecting the sap flowing in milk, leaving this water to dry and hardening, and then using it with various treatments. During the 20th century, advances in chemistry allowed the artificial version to be made using rubber in oil. 2/3 of the 18 million tons of rubber produced every year is synthetic.
Rubber means "weeping tree" in the new world (once now America, of course). The person who introduced rubber into our daily lives for the first time is Johnson Goodyear, also known as the father of rubber. (in 1940's) but unfortunately it has nothing to do with the wheel brand Goodyear.