Linoleum
Patented: History of Inventions
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The Problem With Linoleum
The story of linoleum starts with a gentleman called Frederick Walton from Halifax. He was born in 1844 and his father had a wire carding mill, which is part of the textile process. His earliest experiments were trying to sort of make this machine run better. And he saw he was working a lot with rubber to put it on the sort of bottoms of the wires for protection. But at the same time, rubber was only grew in South America in the Amazon. It was extracted by Europeans exploiting indigenous labor and shipping it back to Europe.
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