Here’s a Story of One Company That Created Theirs by Accident In 1913, three brothers in Cleveland had a business problem: they needed a reason for customers to order more often. Arthur, Leo, and Emanuel Friedman had founded the Chemical Rubber Company a decade earlier, operating out of their father's clothing store. They sold rubber laboratory aprons, then tubing, stoppers, gloves, everything a chemistry department needed to protect itself from itself. They had more than 3,5