Rubber band Rubber band A rubber band (also known as an elastic band, gum band or lacky band) is a loop of rubber, usually ring shaped, and commonly used to hold multiple objects together. The rubber band was patented in England on March 17, 1845, by Stephen Perry. Most rubber bands are manufactured out of natural rubber or, especially at larger sizes, elastomer, and are sold in a variety of sizes. Rubber bands are made by extruding the rubber into a long tube to provide its general shape, putting the tubes on mandrels, curing the rubber with heat, and then slicing it
The Rubber Room inside the rubber rooms for the exposé. The film was profiled in a 2008 segment of "This American Life" with Ira Glass called "Human Resources", which related various human resources problems in the country. In 2010, another documentary about the failures of the American public education, "Waiting for "Superman"", licensed footage shot by Five Boroughs Productions for "The Rubber Room" to use in "Waiting for "Superman's""' short segment on the reassignment centers. On April 12, 2010, the New York Department of Education (DoE) announced that it would be closing down its reassignment centers, facing pressures from the public and the