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Mysterious objects stood about him in the grey twilight; electric batteries, old bicycles and typewriters, a machine for making cement fence-posts, a vulcanizer, a stereopticon with a broken lens.

From One of Ours by Cather, Willa Sibert

But it has come to be a sort of vulcanizer, to make plain English, irony.

From The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

It will suffice to name among them the steam hammer, the sewing machine, the cylinder printing-press, the type-setting machine, the rubber vulcanizer, and the innumerable improvements in steam engines and labor-saving apparatus of all kinds.

From The Greater Republic A History of the United States by Morris, Charles

When the goods are cured steam is blown off, the vulcanizer opened and the cloths are removed.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 841, February 13, 1892 by Various