The vulcanization of rubber was one of the great industrial discoveries of the technologically busy 19th century. By vulcanization, the gooey substance from trees was made, as Charles Slack writes in ...

And now a page from our "Sunday Morning" Almanac: June 15th, 1844, 170 years ago today . . . the day a troublesome natural ingredient bounced back. For that was the day Charles Goodyear received a ...

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Nineteenth century American inventor Charles Goodyear survived decades of hardship while developing his vulcanization process to make rubber a viable industrial material. Written by Nick Smith.

Like crude oil, cotton and plutonium, rubber is on the short list of raw materials that suddenly yielded transformative commercial benefits. The turning point was the 1839 discovery of vulcanization, ...

One hundred years ago last week a persevering Yankee named Charles Goodyear brewed some crude rubber, sulfur and white lead on his kitchen stove, discovered vulcanization. That invention changed ...

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AKRON, Ohio (AP) - A restored portrait of inventor Charles Goodyear is now on display in Ohio after more than two decades in storage. The Akron Beacon Journal reports the portrait of the man who ...

CLEVELAND—The ACS Rubber Division has chosen a professor from Case Western Reserve University to receive its Charles Goodyear Medal, the highest honor given out by the technical organization. The ...