An interesting knock-on affect of the importance of rubber was the Chemical Rubber Corporation being the publisher of a de facto handbook, the _CRC Handbook of

An interesting knock-on affect of the importance of rubber was the Chemical Rubber Corporation being the publisher of a de facto handbook, the _CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics_: https://www.goodreads.com/work/editions/937703-crc-handbook-of-chemistry-and-physics-88th-edition-crc-handbook-of-che https://www.goodreads.com/work/editions/937703-crc-handbook-... which I have found quite useful for its overview of trigonometry and so forth when machining.