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Show HE WAS A MARTYJL CMAflLBS OOOIIVBAI1 OAVB Ills LIFE TO SOIBNGB. Tha (l.nloa Who HeraJ Ik I n-mi n-mi of liw.ilf llol.Var Maiar Knaw ! U'l 1f", Mere ' from Wan! Rubber has done a Rood deal (or clrllttstton, tad rlvlllHllon Imm dono n good deal for robber y a writer lu Alnslea' Msgln. but both nro Indebted In-debted lo Cbarls Ooodyear, hero and rnsrtyr A (hKHlnl lankaa. noodyaar u Lonnetlltul Yankee, Lorn at Naogatuek. Deo. 99. 1900 TIium now living who remember blm In the nih knew him ns a frail little man with soulfnl rjrr and n sympa-thetle sympa-thetle nature Ooodyear after devoting de-voting tho energies ol hl life to ex- crlmnU discovered vulcanization, a process which neutralize tho adhesive- ness of rubber, while hardening II. so H that heat doe not dissolve It or told H Impair IU destlelty Tho chemists H had sought the great secret In Tain 1 Triumph wai reserved fur n man who H wss always In debt and sometime In Hj Iirlton. and oeraaionaliy reduced to the H most pitiful shifts t keep tho wolf J from tho door Ooodyear waa oriel-H oriel-H Hilly n hardware dealer In n email Bf war. hut he Rut Interested In rubber Bjl when It began lo makn a atlr In the M world with the flrat Importation of 1 ahooa from llraill The were soon I tlng made In New Hngland, but the Bjl hualneM tumbled to mill when the rut H ber decomposed In hot weather and M faro out an offensive oitor. Ooodyear, Bl although without money or credit, att I $Jr H on Aiti.itt ooom i:au. Bj to work lu rehabilitate Ita reputation BF In dialing what avemed to hli friend! BH n will o'-the-wlap Ooodyiar waa often BB, In tho pawnihnpa I lo onco left hie BH umbrella with Cornelius Vandcrbllt for Bfl some ferry ticket!, and nt another time BB sold hit chlldren'a eclioolbooke far 1 5. BB which ha needed lu hl uipcrlmenta BB To harden hla sum Qeodycar mixed Bft.-- loaauasta villi U and lumed uut aiuue BHf shoe beautiful Co look upon, but. aa BH uiual, they decomposed He thouitht BHl he had hit upon tho acirct with nitric BHr add, took out n patent and embarked BH la the bualneM of making shoe and BH toye Had times ewept away hla HH proflli beforo lis learned that bo had HHj made another failure and thero wero flHI more rltlta In tho pawnbroker R rallara Alter IwlUra HHr About llili tiinn UoudyiMr met Noth- H anlel lla)ward, who wna fussing with H rubber In a factory nt Wuburn, where HHI ho waa regarded na a ImrmleM crank HH To llayward It waa rerealed In a sflH ilr.Mim that rubber rould be hardened H by mixing aulphur with It and expo H Ing the compound to the tun lie H took out a patent on It Ooodyear, HH bring etruck with the Idea, bought the HH tiatcnt the two men leased n build- H log and went In for making lite pre- HH ecrrora Hut the aecrct had not been HBJ dlecovercd, although llnyward waa on HBJ tho right acent In hot weather It HBJ seemed n wrong one to purchaser nt HBJ Ufa pretorvrra. (loudycnr waa not ills- HBJ mayed After mora experiments he HBJ took a contract to mako (0 rubber malt HHJ baga for tho government The bag! HBJ were n credit to hla skill, but In July HBJ the handtea dropped oft and tho sub- HBJ ttance melted 1 Triumph nil jketldanl. H Tho wolf wat again at the door and Hj noodytar had to dlrlda time In tho uia Hj of tho kitchen oven with hla wlfo B He waa nlwaya baking tho compound H of aulphur and rubber. One. night M whllo gesticulating on hla favorite H thoma with n piece of sulphurated gum M II came lu contact with the red hot H atore Inateri of melting aa uiual tho etuft charred Ilk tratlier Waa n H ery high heat needed to trden rub- M bert The cnthualait trembled with H anticipation Hut there waa the cold H It waa a winter night. Would the 1 roaaa loie Ita flexibility In the treating H alrf floodyenr nailed It agalntt tho V houie. Tho next morning tho com- jH pound waa aa claallo na ever lie had hH dlacovorcd vulcanliatton. The aecrct a9H wai that rubber, with a alight admix- !H turo of aulphur hardened aud loit Ita flH adbealveneai, but not Ita flexibility UAH wlien aubjected to a tcropcraturo of ISO NQR to 270 d jgreea |
