Though indigenous rainforest dwellers of South America have been using rubber for generations, it was not until 1839 that rubber had its first practical application in the industrial world.

虽然南美洲土生土长的雨林居民世代使用橡胶这种东西，可是直到1839年橡胶才在工业化世界中得到了最早的实际运用。

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It was so useless at replacing rubber that GE tried to send it to scientists around the world in hopes that someone, anyone, could figure out something to do with it.

这种东西完全不能替代橡胶，通用电气公司尝试将他送到世界各地的科学家手中希望有人能发现它的用途。

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The simple rubber band has been around for over a century but it still has its USES - even in today's technology-centered world.

简单的橡皮筋已经存在超过一个世纪了，但是即使在当今这个以技术为中心的世界里，它仍然有它的用处。

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The huge Firestone plantation east of the capital,Monrovia, remains the world's largest single natural rubber operation and was one of the first businesses to reopen after Liberia's long civil war.

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The complex is a patchwork of various connected buildings added over the years, filled with a warren of hallways and quirky features such as the World of Rubber museum, conveyor belt-like "speed ramps" that were Goodyear-made hybrids of escalators and moving walkways, and a room filled with models of Goodyear plants.

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Iquitos was put on the world map during the rubber boom in the late 1800s.

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Hublot, which gave the world the now de rigueur rubber strap, came back from the brink with the brilliantly conceived Big Bang series, unmistakably the bastard child of the Royal Oak, only edgier and probably aimed at wearers who would choose a Lamborghini over a Bentley, or a Black Russian over a glass of Masseto.

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