mark twain
Charles Goodyear was born in New Haven, Connecticut on December 29, 1800 to Amasa and Cynthia Goodyear. Charles's father was a hardware manufacture and a merchant. Amasa Goodyear built mainly farming tools like hayforks and scythes, which he invented. When Charles was a teenager he wanted to go into the ministry and become a pastor, but his father convinced him that he was a good business man and placed him in the hardware store of the Rogers brothers in Philadelphia at the age of seventeen. He worked there until he was twenty-one years old. At that time he returned to New Haven to join his father's business, making farm tools. For five years he worked for his father, building up the family business. On August 24, 1824, while he was still working for his father he married Clarissa Beecher who also lived in New Haven, Connecticut. In 1826 Charles Goodyear decided to move to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. There he opened a hardware store where he sold the products that his father made. Four years after opening this store both Amasa and Charles Goodyear were bankrupt because they would extend credit to customers and the customers would never pay back the money that they owed. Charles's health started to decline and both fathe
In 1837 he moved to Roxbury, Massachusetts, where the India rubber business was started. The India rubber business had rebounded, but only selling limited products. There he met E.M. Chaffee, who invented India rubber and John Haskins, one of the factory managers. They saw some of his work and allowed him to rent a small portion of the factory and use their machinery. There in the winter of 1837-38 he sold shoes, piano covers, and tablecloths utilizing his new process. In winter of 1838 he met a man named Nathaniel M. Hayward who was about to patent his discovery in which he put sulfur on rubber to eliminate the stickiness of the rubber. Goodyear hired Hayward to go more in depth with the experiment using sulfur with India rubber. Jointly they discovered that if they mixed sulfur and oil of turpentine together and then added Goodyear's acid and metal coating, this produced a rubber that didn't melt in the hot weather. This process is called vulcanization. They discovered this when they were arguing one day and they spilled the mixture on a stove. It didn't melt it, only burned a little. On February 24, 1839 they got their patent for rubber. Without Goodyear's discovery where would we be today? We would still have wood or stone tires. In the summer the soles of our shoes would stick to the pavement and we would never be able to erase on a paper when we made a mistake. It would be a lot more difficult without rubber and the process of vulcanization.
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Approximate Word count = 1059
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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