goodyear, charles

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goodyear, charles

Noble obsession

Charles Goodyear, Thomas Hancock, and the race to unlock the greatest industrial secret of the nineteenth century
  • Slack, Charles
2002
Chronicles how Charles Goodyear endured years of poverty, hunger, and imprisonment to reinvent rubber into the indispensable substance it is today.

Oh, what an awful mess!

A story of Charles Goodyear
  • Quackenbush, Robert M
1980
A brief biography of the man who discovered a way to make useful, durable items from rubber.
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