Who invented the elastic band?
The first rubber band was made in 1845 by Stephen Perry of the rubber manufacturing company Messers Perry and Co., in London, England. This rubber band was made of vulcanized rubber. Perry invented the rubber band to hold papers or envelopes together. Without him the, flicking rubber bands at each other at the office would not be as fun. Snapping back knicker elastic may not have happened if Thomas Hancock had not been into mastication. That’s mastication, as in the shredding of rubber scraps to allow it to be made into sheets. Hancock invented elastic fabric for the use in fastenings such as suspenders, stockings etc.
