Origins Quiz — Monday, October 26, 2026

What garment is named for a Glasgow chemist who in the 1820s sandwiched rubber dissolved in coal-tar naphtha between two layers of cloth? The public spelled his surname with a letter he never used. Early versions stank, stiffened in cold and melted in heat.

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