Toy balloon in "Swiss Family Robinson" (1813) and in "Moby Dick" (1851). The first rubber balloons were made by Professor Michael Faraday in 1824 for use in his experiments with hydrogen at the Royal Institution in London. "The caoutchouc is exceedingly elastic", he wrote in the Quarterly Journal of Science the same year. "Bags made of it...have been expanded by having air forced into them, until the caoutchouc was quite transparent, and when expanded by hydrogen they were so light as to form balloons with considerable ascending power..." Faraday made his balloons by cutting round two sheets of rubber laid together and
Rubber industry in Malaysia Rubber industry in Malaysia The rubber industry in Malaysia manufactures and exports natural rubber and its products.As of 2017, Malaysia is the fifth largest producer and exporter of natural rubber (NR). They are the leader in the production and export of rubber products. They are also the largest consumer of natural rubber. Malaysia contributes to 46 percent of total rubber production in the world and produces about 1-5 million tons of rubber annually. The production of rubber has declined from the 1990s which used to be 615222 tonnes. Rubber manufacturers in Malaysia include local smallholders, plantations, multinationals and joint ventures