SYNTHETIC RUBBER GENIUS.
NEW YORK, March 19. Dr. Lucas Kyrides, of St. Louis, Missouri, is credited with making the first synthetic rubber tyre in the United Stales. Bui ho has been refused synthetic iyrc.s for his own car, because ho is classed as a non-essential driver. Dr. Kyrides has just been presented with' the award of the American Chemical Society for his discovery of synthetic rubber in 1913. He still rides to his laboratory by tram.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 23 March 1945, Page 6
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