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Charles Goodyear

1800 - 1860

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Charles Goodyear (December 29, 1800 – July 1, 1860) was an American self-taught chemist and manufacturing engineer who developed vulcanized rubber, for which he received patent number 3633 from the United States Patent Office on June 15, 1844. Goodyear is credited with inventing the chemical process to create and manufacture pliable, waterproof, moldable rubber. Goodyear's discovery of the vulcanization process followed five years of searching for a more stable rubber and stumbling upon the effectiveness of heating after Thomas Hancock. His discovery initiated decades of successful rubber manufacturing in the Lower Naugatuck Valley in Connecticut, as rubber was adopted to multiple applications, including footwear and tires. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Charles Goodyear is the 57th most popular inventor (up from 58th in 2019), the 749th most popular biography from United States (down from 567th in 2019) and the 16th most popular American Inventor.

Charles Goodyear is most famous for inventing vulcanized rubber, which is rubber that has been treated with sulfur.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Charles Goodyear ranks 57 out of 426. Before him are Konrad Zuse, Hiram Maxim, Samuel Pierpont Langley, Richard Trevithick, Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, and Adam Opel. After him are William G. Morgan, John Boyd Dunlop, Louis Blériot, Emile Berliner, Willis Carrier, and Étienne Lenoir.

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Among people born in 1800, Charles Goodyear ranks 8. Before him are Thomas Babington Macaulay, Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, John Edward Gray, Millard Fillmore, Emperor Ninkō, and France Prešeren. After him are Henry Fox Talbot, Jean-Baptiste Dumas, John Brown, Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, John Nelson Darby, and James Clark Ross. Among people deceased in 1860, Charles Goodyear ranks 7. Before him are Arthur Schopenhauer, Phineas Gage, Désirée Clary, Jérôme Bonaparte, János Bolyai, and Alexandra Feodorovna. After him are Miloš Obrenović, Stéphanie de Beauharnais, István Széchenyi, Danilo I, Prince of Montenegro, Lady Byron, and Princess Juliane of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Charles Goodyear ranks 749 out of 20,380. Before him are J. Paul Getty (1892), Kim Novak (1933), Glenn T. Seaborg (1912), James Earl Jones (1931), John Cazale (1935), and Martin Cooper (1928). After him are Mike Pence (1959), William G. Morgan (1870), Bell hooks (1952), Kip Thorne (1940), Marshall Warren Nirenberg (1927), and Hugh Everett III (1930).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Charles Goodyear ranks 16. Before him are Robert Fulton (1765), Steve Wozniak (1950), George Westinghouse (1846), Douglas Engelbart (1925), Hiram Maxim (1840), and Samuel Pierpont Langley (1834). After him are William G. Morgan (1870), Willis Carrier (1876), Theodore Maiman (1927), Isaac Singer (1811), John Deere (1804), and Josephine Cochrane (1839).

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