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EXPOSITION AT VIENNA.
HARD VULCANIZED INDIA-RUBBER; CALLED, ALSO, EBONITE AND VULCANITE.
BY JOHN FRETWELL, Jr-.
Class VI. — Subdivision 3.
No one who is intimate with American manufactures and inventions, could inspect the Vienna Exhibition without being convinced, that however inadequately our industries might be represented in the space allotted to the United States Commission, and however unwilling our manufacturers mhdit be to exhibit their goods in a country where they did not seek a market for them*, the inventive genius of Americans had contributed very largely to the goods and machinery exhibited by other nations.
One instance of this fact is to be found in the manufacture of the Hard Vulcanized India-rubber.
It appeared in the American Court only in one form; as a part of the penholders at the gold pen stands ; and yet, invented by the American Goodyear, the subject of many American patents and patent lawsuits, and manufactured by the New York Rubber Comb Company, the Vulcanite Jewelry Company, the Novelty Rubber Company, and Austin G. Da}% it might have claimed a prominent place among American industries at the Universal Exhibition.
On the other hand, the names accompanying the exhibits of the Russian American Company of St. Petersburg, in the Rotunda, and of the American Rubber Company of Mannheim, and the New York Hamburg Company of Hamburg, in the German Annexe, gave evidence of their American origin.
The Scottish Vulcanite Company of Edinburgh owes its establishment, in part at least, to American capital and enterprise, while the pamphlet distributed by the chief European