A good old rubber band may not be the most glamorous office supply, but you’ll be hard-pressed to find a more versatile tool. Whether it’s keeping pens together or even acting as an impromptu hairband ...

For more than 100 years, Alliance Rubber Co. has made rubber bands in Hot Springs -- and now it's the last U.S. company that does. The company was founded in 1923 by William H. Spencer in Alliance, ...

A: It's 160 years to the day since Stephen Perry patented the first rubber band. Q: Who was he? A: He worked in the London-based family business that made rubber. He created rubber bands to hold ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- Last time we showed you some interesting rubber band, or as we call it around here, "gum band" science where they heat up when you stretched. This week we are going to find out ...

For nearly a century, the Plymouth Rubber Company manufactured a variety of products at its factory on Revere Street in Canton. The company employed 1,000 workers at its peak in the early 1980s and ...