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	Connecticut's Heritage Gateway
		Goodyear mixed rubber with other elements, and thought he had discovered the right formula on several occasions.
		In January 1839 Goodyear finally discovered the right combination of additives and heat with which to treat or "vulcanize" rubber.
		It is still commonly believed that Goodyear found the secret by accident when he happened to drop some treated rubber on a hot stove.
	www.ctheritage.org /encyclopedia/ct1818_1865/goodyear.htm (516 words)

	Charles Goodyear: Raw Deal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Charles Goodyear did not invent rubber - which is sticky sap from a tropical tree - but he did invent the "vulcanization" process that made it usable.
		And while he lived, Goodyear was mocked, repeatedly thrown in jail, and ripped-off by those who first scoffed at his invention, then stole it when they realized its potential.
		Charles Goodyear devoted his life to bringing the benefits of rubber to humankind.
	www.blastbooks.com /RAWDEAL/Goodyear/fr2gdyr.htm (194 words)

	Charles Goodyear - Provence Beyond
		Charles Goodyear spent a fair amount of time in France in the middle of the 19th century.
		Goodyear patented his vulcanization process in 1844, but the process was so simple that anyone could do it, and everybody did, without regard to his patent.
		Charles Goodyear traveled to Paris and London to promote his vulcanized rubber, spending large amounts of money for the travel and the promotion.
	www.beyond.fr /people/goodyear.html (279 words)

	Failure Magazine-Archives-History-Charles Goodyear
		Yet, Goodyear was determined to fix rubber's flaws and worked doggedly for the better part of a decade to find a reliable formula for what is now known as vulcanization—the process by which rubber is made impervious to heat and cold.
		By the time Goodyear left Philadelphia for Connecticut in 1836 he was obsessed with rubber—cutting it up, heating it and mixing it with assorted chemicals in an effort to make it smoother and more resistant to extremes in temperature.
		However, Goodyear was making incremental progress (early mixtures included magnesia, turpentine, lime and nitric acid) and he was issued a patent on his "acid-gas process" in 1837.
	www.failuremag.com /arch_history_charles_goodyear.html (2676 words)

	Goodyear Gatorback -- Recommendations and Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Charles Goodyear died in deep debt and is interred at Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, Connecticut.
		Charles Goodyear, Jr., his son, invented the machinery used for the welt stitching process used in the manufacture of Goodyear Welt shoes.
		Charles Goodyear was born in New Haven, December 29, 1800.
	www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/63/goodyear-gatorback.html (1341 words)

	Goodyear Corporate \|\| The Charles Goodyear Story
		Charles, his wife and small daughters made up several hundred pairs of magnesia-dried rubber overshoes in their kitchen.
		Goodyear saw rubber as what we know it is today: the first and most versatile of the modern "plastics." He perceived in it a "vegetable leather" that defied the elements, an "elastic metal," a wood substitute that could be shaped in molds.
		Goodyear's only direct descendant among modern companies is United States Rubber, which years ago absorbed a small company he once served as director.
	www.goodyear.com /corporate/history/history_story.html (1925 words)

	Charles W. Goodyear House (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Goodyear served as Assistant District Attorney under District Attorney Daniel N. Lockwood, who was elected to Congress in 1876 and who resigned the office of District Attorney in the autumn of 1877, whereupon Mr.
		Goodyear gave up the practice of law to form, with his brother, Frank H. Goodyear, the lumber company and kindred organizations that became quite prominent in the business world.
		Goodyear is a descendent of Stephan Goodyear, Deputy Governor of the New England Colony from 1641-1658.
	ah.bfn.org /a/del/888/hist/index.html (788 words)

	Charles Goodyear - People of Connecticut
		harles Goodyear was born in New Haven, Connecticut on December 29, 1800.
		Charles Goodyear himself was almost penniless, but he still believed there was a way to use the substance.
		Charles Goodyear takes his place in history, however, as the man who revolutionized the rubber industry.
	www.netstate.com /states/peop/people/ct_cg.htm (442 words)

	An obsessed Charles Goodyear pursued useable rubber throughout his life
		The story of the automobile tire and how it came to be began with Charles Goodyear, who languished in a Philadelphia debtor's prison in 1834 for failing to pay for a load of raw rubber he had ordered from a shoe factory.
		Locked behind bars in the debtor's prison, Goodyear conducted his first rubber experiments, reasoning that if rubber was naturally adhesive, a powder could absorb some of the stickiness.
		During the winter of 1839, as the story goes, Goodyear was showing off his latest gum and sulfur formula in the Woburn General Store as those around him snickered.
	www.post-gazette.com /businessnews/20000917tirehistory7.asp (1130 words)

	Recycling Tires: Charles Goodyear
		This picture of Charles Goodyear was painted on a sheet of hard rubber (ebonite) by GPA Healey in Paris in 1855.
		Goodyear had come to the store from Philadelphia to try to interest the Roxbury company in a valve he had developed for rubber life preservers, but American consumers were quickly losing their taste for anything rubber.
		By the winter of 1839, Goodyear's family was surviving on the charity of his farm neighbors in Woburn, MA, and he was on the verge of one of the more celebrated accidents in the history of scientific discovery.
	www.dnr.state.oh.us /recycling/awareness/facts/tires/goodyear.htm (900 words)

	Charles Goodyear
		GOODYEAR, Charles, inventor, born in New Haven, Connecticut, 29 December 1800; died in New York City, 1 July, 1860.
		In 1834 Goodyear first turned his attention to this substance, and from then until his death the idea of producing from it a solid elastic material occupied his entire mind.
		The great council medal of the world's fair held in London in 1851 was conferred on him, and he also received the grand medal of the world's fair held in Paris in 1855 together with the cross of the legion of honor, which was presented to him by Napoleon III.
	www.famousamericans.net /charlesgoodyear (885 words)

	Charles Goodyear Biography \| scit_05123456_package.xml
		Goodyear's father was a New Haven, Connecticut, hardware inventor, manufacturer, and merchant specializing in farm tools, but also purveying items as diverse as pearl buttons.
		Charles, although he had health problems on top of his financial ones, did not use the bankruptcy laws to assuage the pain.
		Goodyear was inspired by the challenge and began to experiment with rubber.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/charles-goodyear-scit-05123456 (698 words)

	Organic Cumulative Examination (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Over the next five years, while perfecting his process, Goodyear hocked his watch and furniture, was jailed for inability to pay a hotel bill, and, being unable to afford a funeral for his infant son, borrowed a wagon to carry the body to burial.
		Charles Goodyear lies buried in Grove Street Cemetery, less than 550 yards from where you are now taking this exam, and only 100 yards from J. Willard Gibbs.
		Charles Goodyear "Gum Elastic and Its Varieties, with a detailed account of its application and uses and of the Discovery of Vulcanization" New Haven, for the author, 1855.
	ursula.chem.yale.edu /~chem125/goodyear/CumeAns.html (1792 words)

	Charles Goodyear and the High Cost of Discovery - The Chattanooga Area Chamber of Commerce - business,site ...
		Charles Goodyear, the 19th century American inventor, occupies a sort of gray zone between success and failure.
		What first attracted me to Goodyear was the difference between what most people assume to be his life story and the way his life actually played out.
		His great contribution to the world was this: He took raw rubber, a substance that, for all of its promise, had flopped because of its susceptibility to heat and cold, and he transformed it into the ubiquitous material that to this day is a part of almost everything that defines modern life.
	www.chattanoogachamber.com /newsandvideo/Trend_augsept_03_pge14.asp (1041 words)

	Charles Goodyear Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Charles Goodyear was born on Dec. 29, 1800, in New Haven, Conn. He attended the local public schools.
		When Charles was 17, his father sent him to Philadelphia to learn the business, and at 21 he returned to become his father's partner.
		Goodyear intended to combine the new patented process with his old one, which involved coating rubber with an acid and metal.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/charles-goodyear (352 words)

	Goodyear, Charles - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		GOODYEAR, CHARLES [Goodyear, Charles] 1800-1860, American inventor, b.
		He failed in his earlier business ventures and was in jail for debt when he began his experiments with rubber, searching for a way to prevent it from sticking and melting in hot weather.
		Goodyear had carried on his research in the face of poverty and debt and was forced to market his patent rights for a fraction of their value.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-goodyear.html (416 words)

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		Goodyear realised that this process could offer a considerable improvement in properties to his rubber goods and rubberized fabrics so he purchased the rights under the patent.
		Unfortunately for his family, Goodyear was not interested in money and rapidly disposed of the manufacturing interests which might have made him a millionaire and went back to his experiments.
		Goodyear staged magnificent displays or rubber and hard rubber (vulcanite or ebonite) at the London and Paris exhibitions in the 1850s but, whilst in France, his French patent was cancelled and his French royalties stopped leaving him with outstanding bills he could not settle.
	www.bouncing-balls.com /timeline/people/nr_goodyear.htm (1035 words)

	Charles Goodyear
		The American inventor Charles Goodyear was born at New Haven, Connecticut, on the 29th of December 1800, the son of Amasa Goodyear, an inventor (especially of farming implements) and a pioneer in the manufacture of hardware in America.
		The family removed to Naugatuck, CT, when Charles was a boy; he worked in his father's button factory and studied at home until 1816, when he apprenticed himself to a firm of hardware merchants in Philadelphia.
		Numerous infringements had to be fought in the courts, the decisive victory coming in 1852 in the case of Goodyear v.
	www.nndb.com /people/411/000050261 (513 words)

	Invent Now \| Hall of Fame \| Search \| Inventor Profile
		Goodyear's discovery of what came to be known as vulcanization strengthened rubber so it could be applied to a vast variety of industrial uses, including, eventually, automobile tires.
		Thereafter he turned his talents to the commercial improvement of India rubber, which, until his time, was not used much in industry because of the adhesiveness of the surface and because of its inability to withstand temperature extremes.
		The famous vulcanizing process, patented in 1844, was to revolutionized the rubber industry, but Goodyear was unable to profit financially from his discovery.
	www.invent.org /hall_of_fame/68.html (202 words)

	AmericanHeritage.com / Charles Goodyear
		Goodyear thought the inflating valve crude, bought the preserver, and reappeared a few days later with an improved valve.
		Goodyear lived to see his invention I create a major industry—though the company that bore his name was founded years after his death.
		In later years, however, his penury had ceased to bother him.“[I] am not disposed to repine and say that [I have] planted and others have gathered the fruits,” he wrote once.“The advantages of a career … should not be estimated exclusively by the standard of dollars and cents, as it is too often done.
	www.americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/ah/1978/3/1978_3_62.shtml (1045 words)

	Goodyear Charles - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Goodyear, Charles (1800-1860), American inventor, born in New Haven, Connecticut.
		In the United States, rubberized goods had become popular by the 1830s, and rubber bottles and shoes made by the Native South Americans were imported...
		Charles (of Württemberg), full German name Karl Friedrich Alexander (1823-1891), king of Württemberg (1864-1891).
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Goodyear_Charles.html (117 words)

	Goodyear's Accident
		This fellow's name is Charles Goodyear, and he's been trying to get someone to buy into his plan to make a temperature-stable rubber for years.
		Goodyear realizes what was happening, but before he can throw out the charred remains, he notices something.
		Charles Goodyear and the Strange Story of Rubber - the story of Charles Goodyear, reprinted from the January 1958 issue of Reader's Digest, hosted by The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company.
	www.pslc.ws /macrog/exp/rubber/bepisode/vulcan.htm (893 words)

	Amazon.com: Noble Obsession: Charles Goodyear, Thomas Hancock, and the Race to Unlock the Greatest Industrial Secret of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Goodyear was the implacable, obsessed true believer who made possible "the great shock absorber of the industrial age." Slack (Blue Fairways) ably chronicles the inspirations and intrigues surrounding the miraculous substance, which in its day sparked speculation comparable to the Internet boom.
		Charles Goodyear was a failed businessman with a determination to wrest from India-gum rubber the secret of the age.
		If Charles Goodyear thought that no one wants to be your friend when you are unsuccessful, his list of enemies Is nothing compared to when he has success in his grasp.
	www.amazon.com /Noble-Obsession-Goodyear-Industrial-Nineteenth/dp/0786867892 (2053 words)

	Travel Channel :: Made in America :: Goodyear Tires
		Goodyear was working with the unstable material in his kitchen one day in the 1830s when he dropped some on a hot stove.
		Charles Goodyear once said of the gum that is the basic ingredient of rubber: "There is probably no other inert substance which so excites the mind."
		Goodyear has created a run flat tire, which will support the car for up to 50 miles at 50 mph if the tire loses air.
	travel.discovery.com /fansites/jrmia/goods/goodyear.html (326 words)

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		With improvement in all seven of its business units in the fourth quarter, Goodyear might finally be starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel.
		Goodyear shares rose 40 cents, or 4.6 percent, to $9.04 on Monday on the New York Stock Exchange.
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	www.lycoszone.com /info/goodyear--companies.html (439 words)

	Charles Goodyear - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Goodyear, however, had no mind to stop here in his experiments.
		In 1838, Goodyear met Nathaniel Hayward in Woburn, Massachusetts.
		In 1898, after his death, the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company was founded and named after Goodyear by Frank Seiberling.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charles_Goodyear (2126 words)

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