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A Stamp In Time: History Of The Rubber Stamp
Rubber Stamps have an interesting history for those who don’t know that they might have been inspired by dentures. Yes, it’s true: dental dentures! But first, some background, as Charles Goodyear had to discover the process behind vulcanization. This is the process of “curing” the rubber so it can be molded as desired. Before Mr. Goodyear’s invention of the vulcanization process, rubber — in its natural state — was practically impossible to work with.It is sticky and does not stay set in a particular shape. But with vulcanization, rubber, once cooled, would hold the shape in which it had been molded.
But unfortunately, poor Mr. Goodyear did not benefit financially from his invention, though he was publicly honored by the Emperor of France, Napoleon himself, and recognized with much prestige. His invention, however, soon found many applications that were to change the world. One of these was dentures. Rubber was found to be a great replacement material for the dentures of the day, which were often made of metal or even wood.Dentists had long been making their own dentures, and one of these many dentists had a nephew who realized the potential of rubber and eventually wound up manufacturing rubber stamps for the U.S. Postal Service. The nephew, a Mr. James Woodruff, has often been credited with having invented the quality rubber stamp we know today. But there exists, actually, many different accounts of the origins of rubber stamps, depending on exactly how a rubber stamp is defined, with one even stretching all the way back to the ancient Mayans! This version just presented is among the most widely accepted accounts for the rubber devices which we today would most immediately recognize as being a rubber stamp.
Another very popular and widely acknowledged version of the invention the rubber stamp involves a Mr. L.F. Witherell, who went so far as to compose a document titled “How I Came to Discover the Rubber Stamp,” in which he claimed to have been inspired during work as a foreman at a wooden pump manufacturing facility. According to Mr. Witherell, there was a problem one day that concerned the paint that was used to mark the pumps. The paint would run and obscure some necessary information. Mr. Witherell stumbled on the notion of creating stencils out of some thin sheets of rubber packing laying around. But while creating the stencil, he thought further and decided to simply create thick letters out of the rubber, then glue them to a backing of wood, with which he could make repeated impressions of the necessary marks.
The one account held least likely involves a Mr. Henry C. Leland, who was actually championed, ironically, during his time by none other than the “Stamp Trade News,” published by a manufacturer of rubber stamps.But no mater its origins, there is no doubt that the rubber stamp itself has left quite an enduring impression on our world.
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