Date of Award

5-1934

Degree Type

Bachelors Essay

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts (BA)

Department

Chemistry

First Advisor

Herbert Heinrich

Abstract

Since the World War, the production of synthetic rubber has become the problem not only of the laboratory, but of commerce as well. Several factors demanded this research.

In the first place, the World War made the dependence of countries on each other strikingly evident in several ways, one of which was the need for rubber by great nations whose situations prohibited the planting of the rubber tree and consequently put them under obligation to other countries for their supply.

And now in the last few years this demand for rubber has been increased enormously, through the increased production of the automobile. The demand for synthetic rubber has not come, as one might suppose, from the increasing output of tires but from the new engineering achievement, known to the trade as "floating power". This accomplishment could only be attained with the help of a special synthetic rubber, which, while it possessed elasticity and resiliency, must necessarily be of such a composition as to resist the corrosive effects of petroleum in its different forms.

Comments

A Thesis submitted to the Faculty of the College of Liberal Arts of Marquette University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts. Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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