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Only the name was Goodyear


In 1839, when a combination of rubber, sulfur, and white lead overheated in shopkeeper Charles Goodyear’s kitchen, a temperature resistant rubber was created that would revolutionize transportation, public health, and everyday life. But credit for the material that lined a raincoat or formed the hose that brought water to a burning building would not go to Goodyear w ho had depleted his savings and could not develop his findings in time to obtain the first patent.

Instead the spoils for inventing vulcanized rubber went to scientists and entrepreneurs who used G oodyeor’s experimental findings. These included Englishman Thomas Hancock who refined G oodyear’s work and received the first British patent for durable rubber and American surgeon B enjamin Franklin Goodrich, who foresaw the myriad uses o f rubber beginning with the rubber hose and founded his own rubber-manufacruring business the B. F. Goodrich C o. in 1870.

Even when the Goodyear Tire and Rubber co. was founded in 1898 by Frank Sieberling it was in no way affiliated with the inventor, a regular in debt or prison who had died in 1860 near one half a million dollars in debt.
In the case of the Goodyear Tire and R ubber co., only the name was Goodyear.


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This intel reflects only one of my activities. I also write about and/or have websites on Vespa Scooters, Lambretta Scooters, Hardy Banana plants, Medical memorabilia, reborn baby dolls and much more. Hope you enjoyed the read, Philip Davey

Contributed by Phildave on July 29, 2008, at 00:01 AM UTC.

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