Steve King
US Representative for Iowa (1949-)
Charles Goodyear
American inventor
Charles Goodyearwas an American self-taught chemist and manufacturing engineer who developed vulcanized rubber, for which he received patent number 3633 from the United States Patent Office on June 15, 1844.
Goodyear is credited with inventing the chemical process to create and manufacture pliable, waterproof, moldable rubber.
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Charles Goodyearwas an American self-taught chemist and manufacturing engineer who developed vulcanized rubber, for which he received patent number 3633 from the United States Patent Office on June 15, 1844.
Goodyear is credited with inventing the chemical process to create and manufacture pliable, waterproof, moldable rubber.
Goodyear’s discovery of the vulcanization process followed five years of searching for a more stable rubber and stumbling upon the effectiveness of heating after Thomas Hancock. His discovery initiated decades of successful rubber manufacturing in the Lower Naugatuck Valley in Connecticut, as rubber was adopted to multiple applications, including footwear and tires. The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company is named afterhim.
3 Quotes by Charles Goodyear
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A man has cause for regret only when he sows and no one reaps.
Charles GoodyearAmerican inventor
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Life should not be estimated exclusively by the standard of dollars and cents.
Charles GoodyearAmerican inventor
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I am not disposed to complain that I have planted and others have gathered the fruits.
Charles GoodyearAmerican inventor