What I learned from reading The Goodyear Story: An Inventor's Obsession and The Struggle For A Rubber Monopoly by Richard Korman
What I learned from reading The Goodyear Story: An Inventor's Obsession and The Struggle For A Rubber Monopoly by Richard Korman.
An obsessive quest to find the recipe for rubber (0:01), Charles Goodyear epitomized the spirit of the upstart American technologists (6:15), the early life of Goodyear's family (20:10), coming up with the idea for a domestic made only hardware store (29:00), a crushing failure + debtor's prison (35:20), accidentally finding his life's work (38:18), optimism + positive mental attitude (44:30), Patent #3633 (1:03:30), why Charles did what he did (1:11:30)
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