Charles Goodyear
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: The 19th Century
- Categories: Technology, Inventions
- Subcategories: Inventors, Industry, Manufacturing, Factories
- Curriculum: American History 1816-1855, American Civil War & Reconstruction Era (1856-1877)
Article abstract: Goodyear was the first man to vulcanize rubber, thereby rendering it usable for manufacturing numerous products.
Early Life
Charles Goodyear was born in New Haven, Connecticut, on December 29, 1800. He was the first child born to Amasa Goodyear and Cynthia Bateman Goodyear; their family later grew to include six children. Stephen Goodyear, an ancestor from London, had been one of a group of merchants who founded a colony in New Haven in 1638. Amasa Goodyear was also a merchant, selling hardware supplies to farmers, as well as an...
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