Awarded National Inventors Hall of Fame (1976).
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Charles Goodyear
Charles Goodyear was 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.
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business · American inventor (1800–1860) · inventor · chemist · engineer · entrepreneur · also Charles Goodyear, Goodyear
Born 29 December 1800 · Died 1 July 1860 · Q207667
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In reflecting upon the past, as relates to these branches of industry, the writer is not disposed to repine, and say that he has planted, and others have gathered the fruits. The advantages of a career in life should not be estimated exclusively by the standard of dollars and cents, as is too often done. Man has just cause for regret when he sows and no one reaps.
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1976· 2 entries
Was among six individuals selected for induction into the National Inventors Hall of Fame
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1898· 1 entry
Almost four decades after his death, The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company was founded and named after Goodyear by Frank Seiberling
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1860· 2 entries
Died 1860-07-01.
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While traveling to see his dying daughter
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1858· 1 entry
Goodyear won a seven-year extension on his American patent on the grounds of financial hardship
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1855· 3 entries
“In reflecting upon the past, as relates to these branches of industry, the writer is not disposed to repine, and say that he has planted, and others have gathered the fruits. The advantages of a career in life should not be estimated exclusively by the standard of dollars and cents, as is too often done. Man has just cause for regret when he sows and no one reaps.”
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Goodyear was sent to debtor's prison in both England and France, both relating to debts he had incurred demonstrating uses of vulcanization at the Exposition Universelle
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In the last of three patent disputes with fellow British rubber pioneer, Stephen Moulton, Hancock's patent was challenged with the claim that Hancock had copied Goodyear
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1852· 1 entry
Goodyear went to Europe, a trip that he had long planned, and saw Thomas Hancock, then in the employ of Charles Macintosh & Company
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1844· 3 entries
The process was sufficiently perfected and Goodyear received US patent number 3633, which mentions New York but not Springfield
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Goodyear's brother Henry introduced mechanical mixing of the mixture in place of the use of solvents
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Became the subject of lawsuits from jealous rubber entrepreneurs, who had failed in their own attempts but falsely claimed that Goodyear had stolen ideas from them or others
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1842· 1 entry
But several chemists testified that it would not have been possible to determine how it was made by studying it
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1839· 1 entry
Goodyear was at the Eagle India Rubber Company in Woburn, Massachusetts, where he discovered that combining rubber and sulfur over a hot stove caused the rubber to become rigid, a process which he called vulcanization be
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1824· 1 entry
Married Clarissa Beecher, whom he met at his Congregational Church
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1800· 2 entries
In New Haven, Connecticut, the son of Amasa Goodyear, and the oldest of six children
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Born 1800-12-29.
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