I te takurua o te tau 1902, i haere tetahi wahine ko Mary Anderson tōna ingoa ki New York, ā, i kitea e ia nā te kino o te rangi i...taraiwatino puhoi.Nā reira i unuhia ai e ia tana pukatuhi ka tuhi i tētahi tātuhi: hehoroi rapai waho o tematapihi matapihi, e hono ana ki tētahi rīwhi i roto i te motuka.
I te tau i muri mai ka patent a Anderson i tana mea hou, engari he tokoiti noa iho ngā tāngata whai motuka i taua wā, nō reira kāore i tino arohia tana mea hou.Tekau tau i muri mai, i te wā i kawea mai ai e te Tauira T a Henry Ford ngā motuka ki te ao whānui, ko te "kaihoroi matapihi"i warewaretia."
Kātahi ka ngana anō a John Oishei.I kitea e Oishei tētahi mea hanga ā-ringa i hangaia i te rohehoroi wakai huaina ko te Rain Rubber. I taua wā, i wehea te matapihi o mua ki ngā wāhanga o runga me raro, ā, ko terapa uai nekeneke haere i te āputa i waenganui i ngā maramara karāhe e rua. Kātahi ka whakatūria e ia tētahi kamupene hei whakatairanga.
Ahakoa i hiahiatia te taraiwa kia whakamahi i te kāpia ua ki te ringa kotahi, me te wira urungi ki te ringa kē—i tere tonu te noho hei taputapu paerewa i runga i ngā motuka o Amerika.Ko te kamupene a Oishei, i tapaina ko Trico, i tere tonu te whakahaere i temata horoimākete.
I roto i ngā tau,ngā horoikua hangaia anōtia i ngā wā katoa hei whakautu i ngā panonitanga o te hoahoa matapihi o mua. Engari ko te ariā taketake tonu te mea i tuhia e Anderson i runga i te tereina tiriti o New York i te tau 1902.
E ai ki tētahi pānuitanga tōmua mō ngā horoi matapihi o mua: "Tirohanga māramaka ārai i ngā aituā, ā, ka hangate taraiwa māmā ake"
Wā tuku: Whiringa-ā-rangi 10-2023
