Goodyear,
Charles (1800 - 1860)
Charles
Goodyear was the American inventor of the process of vulcanization
(patented 1844). In 1839 he bought the patents of Nathaniel
Manley Hayward (1808-1865), who had had some success by treating
rubber with sulfur. Working on this, Goodyear accidentally
dropped a rubber/sulfur mixture onto a hot stove, so discovering
vulcanization.
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