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Show Discovery an Accident Charles (ioodyear, who discovered the process of vulcanizing rubber, expended ex-pended all his means in experiments with various mixtures and processes which should remedy the fatal defects of India rubber In Its natural state, since It Is brittle In cold weather and' sticky in warm weather. Tl,e great secret of vulcanizing, a process In which the two substimces. submitted to a high temperature, are converted ' into elastic, enduring, heat and colj-defving colj-defving material, now in use. was an accidental discovery made by Goodyear Good-year while standing by a stove and ld!y subjecting a mixture of rubber and sulphur to Its heat. |