According to the brand, Hood Rubber began advertising its first basketball sneakers in its 1914 catalog. The shoe was a laced-to-toe high-top made with heavy duck canvas and a vulcanized rubber sole.

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Three years later, they were all consolidated under the name Keds, which became the first company to sell a rubber soled canvas sneaker, a precursor to countless silhouettes, in 1917. Even the name ...

Vulcanization refers to a heat-treatment of rubber to make it more abrasion-resistant. Vulcanized rubber is used in tires, bowling balls, hockey pucks, but as we know most lovingly, in the soles ...

It wasn’t until 1844, when Charles Goodyear patented vulcanized rubber, that modern-day soccer balls began to really take shape—literally. But it wasn’t until 1844 that the modern-day soccer ...