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Charles Goodyear


 

Charles Goodyear (December 29, 1800 - July 1, 1860) is popularly renown as the inventor of vulcanized rubber. However we know today that ancient Mesoamericans achieved the same results in 1600 BC http://web.mit.edu/org/m/materialculture/www/rubberprocessing.html.

India Rubber World article

Scientific American in 1891 ran an article on Goodyear, sourced from an undated article in a publication called India Rubber World; it is reprinted here

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