Show GOODYEARS inventions ab mt wlm lip arr of alic enormous value of rubber in tho arta Is almost wholly duo to tho inventions or discoveries of charles goodyear Goody car n american inventor alio was born in new conn december 29 1800 ho received only a common school education and on coming of ago nu went into business with his father who was then established in philadelphia in the hardware business alio commercial dis aster of 1830 broke 1111 the inn ami charles turned his attention to improvements of tho of rubber ho mado experiments in several for six cara without accomplishing comp lishing any real but id ho discovered of depriving india rubber of its adhesiveness by dipping it into nitric acid this process was wa s into use very ex especially in alic of rubber shoes ifft i i iti its cu acts arc conlin cd to tho sur tico ol 01 tho rubber did not goodyear Goody car and ho continued hiti fur a better process in january 1839 ho observe that rubber mixed with sulphur when brought in contact a red hot stove waa not melted ami eliat though deprived of it it d elastic was discovered alic important method 0 vulcanizing vulcan izing rubber i 0 uniting it with sulphur at a high degree of cicat by which tho use of this material in alio of innumerable articles has become possible from that time until his death ho gaio his timo to vulcanizing vulcan izing process for all purposes and secured oica sixty united clattis in franco and great britain ho was wa s unfairly deprived of alio llio rights due to tho priority of his invention and alio number of alic infringements of ills in tho united states very ous BO that profits acro small compiled comp ired to alio importance of his invention i lie received many meilih and in comline the great council medal of alio exhibition of all nations at donilon Io nilon in 1851 the medal of honor of alio worlds exhibition nt ibris in 1815 anil crota of alie legion of honor presented him by napoleon III goodyear died il now york july 1 Hos loii alobe |