The second is made by coating a fabric like cotton or polyester with a flexible polymer and then treating it to look more like animal hide. Both types are used in making clothing, upholstery, and product covers, but each is better for certain applications than others.
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In midsummer of 1834, a bankrupt hardware merchant from Philadelphia, Charles Goodyear, walked into the New York retail store of the Roxbury India Rubber Co., America's first rubber manufacturer. He showed the store manager a new valve he had devised for rubber life preservers. The manager shook his head sadly.