Jewish Invention Myths: The Rubber Condom
Moving on to our next jewish invention myth we have rubber condom which ‘MNews’ claims was invented by a jew.
To wit:
‘Julius Fromm – Rubber condoms
The chemist Julius Fromm revolutionized the world back in his day: he invented a cement-dipping method of making thinner and seamless rubber condoms as opposed to “skin” condoms that existed at the time.’ (1)
This is typically misleading from ‘MNews’ since while it is claimed that Fromm invented ‘rubber condoms’ in the title; the detail states that he ‘made thinner and seamless rubber condoms’ implying rubber condoms had already been invented and then contradicts itself by then implying that only ‘skin’ condoms (meaning condoms made from animal intestines/velvet etc) were available and not rubber ones.
The reality is of course that Julius Fromm didn’t invent the rubber condom at all that was Charles Goodyear (yes of Goodyear tyres fame) in 1855. (2) All Julius Fromm invented was a method to make existing rubber condoms thinner in 1912 and this was superseded in 1920 by the work of American patent lawyer Ernest Hopkinson on rubber and latex. (3)
So, no Julius Fromm didn’t invent the rubber condom: Charles Goodyear did!
Scratch another jewish invention myth.
References
(1) https://mnews.world/en/news/the-great-jews-and-their-inventions
(2) https://web.archive.org/web/20060721104435/http://www.billy-boy.com/english/info/; Aine Collier, 2007, ‘The Humble Little Condom: A History’, 1st Edition, Prometheus: New York, p. 134
(3) Collier, Op. Cit., pp. 200-201