Belts – Brief History And Types
, industrial belts are ubiquitous. Their omnipresence makes it seem they have been around forever, but in reality, they are a recent phenomenon. Industrial belts played a crucial part in the industrial revolution. One of the earliest mentions of V belts in automobiles, from a journal in 1916, mentions leather as the belt material, and also mentions that the V-angle was not yet well standardized. The endless rubber V-belt was developed in 1917 by John Gates of the Gates Rubber Company.
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