Charles Goodyear biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Charles Goodyear

Author Name:

Charles Goodyear

Born As:

Charles Goodyear

Other Names:

Charles Goodyear

Born:

29 Dec 1800

Died:

1 Jul 1860




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Inventor                          
                          
Mother 
Father Amasa Goodyear, six children. Amasa was the inventor of the steel pitchfork.
Wife Clarissa Beecher.                          
The first American to vulcanize rubber, a process which he discovered in 1839 and patented on June 15, 1844.                          
In 1898, almost four decades after his death, the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company was founded and named after Goodyear by Frank Seiberling.
On February 8, 1976, he was among 6 selected for induction into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.