The Hancocks of Marlborough

• Family of exceptional importance in the development of Victorian technology and the Industrial Revolution.
• Never previously told story based on unpublished documents.
• Three-fold appeal: to scientists, social historians, and the general reader.
• Factual, very readable, and enjoyable.
• Fully referenced

Readership: Scientists (physics, chemistry, materials science, chemical engineering, and molecular sciences), historians, the interested layman, general public.

"A treasure house for anyone interested in inventors and how they managed their intellectual property prior to the reform and consolidation in 1852 of the UK's patent system." - Physics Today

1: Marlborough, Wiltshire - Roots
2: The Hancocks Gather in London
3: From Seawater to Steam
4: Life, Death, and Bankruptcy
5: The Family, the Law, and the End of a Dream
6: Life's Ups and Downs
7: A New Industry
8: Gutta Percha Comes to Town
9: The Great Hose Controversy
10: 'The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations
11: Back to the Courts
12: A Life of Ease
13: Death and Depositions
14: Marlborough Cottage and the Great Aunts
15: The Hancock Legacy
16: James Lyne Hancock & Co
Epilogue: Thoughts on a Dynasty
Appendix I: The fourteen patents of Thomas Hancock 'for the treatment and application of INDIA RUBBER'
Appendix II: Mechanical Applications of Vulcanized India Rubber as described by Thomas Hancock
Appendix III: Technical Development of the Rubber Industry 1850-1950