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See also:GOODYEAR, See also:CHARLES (1800-186o) , See also:American inventor, was See also:born at New Haven, See also:Connecticut, on the 29th of See also:December 1800, the son of Amasa Goodyear, an inventor (especially of farming implements) and a See also:pioneer in the manufacture of hard-See also:ware in See also:America. The See also:family removed to See also:Naugatuck, See also:Conn., when Charles was a boy; he worked in his See also:father's See also:button factory and studied at See also:home until 1816, when he apprenticed himself to a See also:firm of hardware merchants in See also:Philadelphia. In 1821 he returned to Connecticut and entered into a See also:partnership with his father at Naugatuck, which continued till 1830, when it was terminated by business reverses. Already he was interested in an See also:attempt to discover a method of treatment by which indiarubber could be made into merchandizable articles that would stand extremes of See also:heat and See also:cold. To the See also:solution of this problem the next ten years of his See also:life were devoted. With ceaseless See also:energy and unwavering faith in the successful outcome of his labours, in the See also:face of repeated failures and hampered by poverty, which several times led him to a debtor's See also:prison, he persevered in his endeavours. For a See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time he seemed to have succeeded with a treatment (or " cure ") of the See also:rubber with aqua fortis. In 1836 he secured a See also:contract for the manufacture by this See also:process of See also:mail bags for the U.S. See also:government, but the rubber fabric was useless at high temperatures. In 1837 he met and worked with Nathaniel See also:Hayward (18o8-1865), who had been an employee of a rubber factory in See also:Roxbury and had made experiments with See also:sulphur mixed with rubber. Goodyear bought from Hayward the right to use this imperfect process. In 1839, by dropping on a hot See also:stove some indiarubber mixed with sulphur, he discovered accidentally the process for the vulcanization of rubber. Two years more passed before he could find any one who had faith enough in his See also:discovery to invest See also:money in it. At last, in 1844, by which time he had perfected his process, his first patent was granted, and in the subsequent years more than sixty See also:patents were granted to him for the application of his See also:original process to various uses. Numerous infringements had to be fought in the courts, the decisive victory coming in 1852 in the See also:case of Goodyear v. See also:Day, in which his rights were defended by See also:Daniel See also:Webster and opposed by See also:Rufus See also:Choate.
End of Article: GOODYEAR, CHARLES (1800-186o)
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