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Here's a biographical profile of Charles Goodyear, the man who gave the world one of its most useful products: vulcanized rubber. Natural rubber, the milky sap of rubber trees, is not really a very practical product. It melts in hot weather or breaks and freezes in winter. In 1839, Charles Goodyear found an activity that made rubber so useful it evolved the world we live in. A hundred years later there were 122 rubber factories in Ohio, including Firestone Wheel & Rubber, U. S. Rubber, and Goodyear Wheel & Rubber. Akron was the rubber capital of the nation, probably the world.But Goodyear's breakthrough didn't bring him prosperity or place; he spent a long time and far of his lot of money safeguarding his patents in endless court fights. Goodyear's storyline is the quintessential Greek tragedy.
