Charles Goodyear, the Glossary
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.[1]
Table of Contents
44 relations: Acid, Alkali, Andrew Jackson, Autodidacticism, Boston, C-SPAN, Calcium oxide, Charles Goodyear Medal, Charles Macintosh, Chemical substance, Chemist, Connecticut, Frank Seiberling, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, Goodyear welt, Greenwich Village, Hiram Hutchinson, Hutchinson SA, Indigestion, Ivory, Lead oxide, Lifebuoy, Lower Naugatuck Valley, Magnesium oxide, Manufacturing engineering, National Inventors Hall of Fame, Natural rubber, Naugatuck, Connecticut, New Haven, Connecticut, New York City, Nitric acid, Panic of 1837, Philadelphia, Rhode Island, Soot, Springfield, Massachusetts, Staten Island, Stephen Moulton, Thomas Hancock (inventor), Turpentine, United States Patent and Trademark Office, Vulcanization, William Henry Goodyear, Woburn, Massachusetts.
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Acid
An acid is a molecule or ion capable of either donating a proton (i.e. hydrogen ion, H+), known as a Brønsted–Lowry acid, or forming a covalent bond with an electron pair, known as a Lewis acid.
Alkali
In chemistry, an alkali (from lit) is a basic, ionic salt of an alkali metal or an alkaline earth metal.
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Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson (March 15, 1767 – June 8, 1845) was an American lawyer, planter, general, and statesman who served as the seventh president of the United States from 1829 to 1837.
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Autodidacticism
Autodidacticism (also autodidactism) or self-education (also self-learning, self-study and self-teaching) is the practice of education without the guidance of schoolmasters (i.e., teachers, professors, institutions).
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Boston
Boston, officially the City of Boston, is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.
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C-SPAN
Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network (C-SPAN) is an American cable and satellite television network, created in 1979 by the cable television industry as a nonprofit public service.
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Calcium oxide
Calcium oxide (formula: CaO), commonly known as quicklime or burnt lime, is a widely used chemical compound.
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Charles Goodyear Medal
The Charles Goodyear Medal is the highest honor conferred by the American Chemical Society, Rubber Division.
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Charles Macintosh
Charles Macintosh FRS (29 December 1766 – 25 July 1843) was a Scottish chemist and the inventor of the modern waterproof raincoat.
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Chemical substance
A chemical substance is a unique form of matter with constant chemical composition and characteristic properties.
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Chemist
A chemist (from Greek chēm(ía) alchemy; replacing chymist from Medieval Latin alchemist) is a graduated scientist trained in the study of chemistry, or an officially enrolled student in the field.
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Connecticut
Connecticut is the southernmost state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.
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Frank Seiberling
Franklin Augustus "Frank" Seiberling (October 6, 1859 – August 11, 1955), also known as F.A. Seiberling, was an American innovator and entrepreneur best known for co-founding the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company in 1898 and the Seiberling Rubber Company in 1921.
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Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company is an American multinational tire manufacturer headquartered in Akron, Ohio.
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Goodyear welt
A Goodyear welt is a strip of leather, rubber, or plastic that runs along the perimeter of a shoe outsole.
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Greenwich Village
Greenwich Village, or simply the Village, is a neighborhood on the west side of Lower Manhattan in New York City, bounded by 14th Street to the north, Broadway to the east, Houston Street to the south, and the Hudson River to the west.
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Hiram Hutchinson
Hiram Hutchinson (c. 1808–1869) was an American industrialist of British origin.
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Hutchinson SA
Hutchinson is a French multinational Group known as the third-largest manufacturer of non-tire rubber in the world.
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Indigestion
Indigestion, also known as dyspepsia or upset stomach, is a condition of impaired digestion.
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Ivory
Ivory is a hard, white material from the tusks (traditionally from elephants) and teeth of animals, that consists mainly of dentine, one of the physical structures of teeth and tusks.
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Lead oxide
Lead oxides are a group of inorganic compounds with formulas including lead (Pb) and oxygen (O).
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Lifebuoy
A lifebuoy is a life-saving buoy designed to be thrown to a person in water to provide buoyancy and prevent drowning.
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Lower Naugatuck Valley
The Lower Naugatuck Valley, also known locally as simply "The Valley", is a geographic area located around the confluence of the southern parts of the Housatonic and Naugatuck Rivers.
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Magnesium oxide
Magnesium oxide (MgO), or magnesia, is a white hygroscopic solid mineral that occurs naturally as periclase and is a source of magnesium (see also oxide).
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Manufacturing engineering
Manufacturing engineering or production engineering is a branch of professional engineering that shares many common concepts and ideas with other fields of engineering such as mechanical, chemical, electrical, and industrial engineering.
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National Inventors Hall of Fame
The National Inventors Hall of Fame (NIHF) is an American not-for-profit organization, founded in 1973, which recognizes individual engineers and inventors who hold a U.S. patent of significant technology.
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Natural rubber
Rubber, also called India rubber, latex, Amazonian rubber, caucho, or caoutchouc, as initially produced, consists of polymers of the organic compound isoprene, with minor impurities of other organic compounds.
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Naugatuck, Connecticut
Naugatuck is a consolidated borough and town in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States.
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New Haven, Connecticut
New Haven is a city in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States.
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New York City
New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.
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Nitric acid
Nitric acid is the inorganic compound with the formula.
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Panic of 1837
The Panic of 1837 was a financial crisis in the United States that began a major depression (not to be confused with the Great Depression), which lasted until the mid-1840s.
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia, colloquially referred to as Philly, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the sixth-most populous city in the nation, with a population of 1,603,797 in the 2020 census.
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Rhode Island
Rhode Island (pronounced "road") is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.
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Soot
Soot is a mass of impure carbon particles resulting from the incomplete combustion of hydrocarbons.
Springfield, Massachusetts
Springfield is the most populous city in and the seat of Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States.
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Staten Island
Staten Island is the southernmost borough of New York City, coextensive with Richmond County and situated at the southernmost point of New York.
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Stephen Moulton
Stephen Moulton (7 July 1794 – 26 April 1880) was an Englishman who, as an agent of the American rubber pioneer Charles Goodyear, first brought samples of vulcanized rubber to the United Kingdom.
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Thomas Hancock (inventor)
Thomas Hancock (8 May 1786 – 26 March 1865), elder brother of inventor Walter Hancock, was an English self-taught manufacturing engineer who founded the British rubber industry. Charles Goodyear and Thomas Hancock (inventor) are polymer scientists and engineers.
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Turpentine
Turpentine (which is also called spirit of turpentine, oil of turpentine, terebenthine, terebenthene, terebinthine and, colloquially, turps) is a fluid obtained by the distillation of resin harvested from living trees, mainly pines.
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United States Patent and Trademark Office
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is an agency in the U.S. Department of Commerce that serves as the national patent office and trademark registration authority for the United States.
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Vulcanization
Vulcanization (British English: Vulcanisation) is a range of processes for hardening rubbers.
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William Henry Goodyear
William Henry Goodyear (1846–1923) was a noted architectural historian, art historian, and museum curator.
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Woburn, Massachusetts
Woburn is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.
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See also
People of the American Industrial Revolution
- Éleuthère Irénée du Pont
- Alfred Hunt (steel magnate)
- Andrew Carnegie
- Charles Goodyear
- Charles M. Schwab
- Daniel Day (manufacturer)
- Daniel Leavitt
- Edmund Dwight
- Edwin Drake
- Eli Whitney
- Eugene Grace
- Francis Cabot Lowell
- Frederick Ayer
- Frederick Marriott
- George Peake (inventor)
- George W. Lyman
- Grubb Family Iron Dynasty
- Henry Ford
- James B. Francis
- James Cook Ayer
- James Henry Northrop
- Jerry Wheelock
- John B. McCormick
- John Capron
- John D. Rockefeller
- John H. Hall (gunsmith)
- Joseph Priestley
- Kirk Boott
- Luke Taft
- Moses Brown
- Moses Taft
- Patrick Tracy Jackson
- Paul Moody (inventor)
- Richard Mowry
- Robert Fulton
- Robert Hare (chemist)
- Robert R. Livingston
- Robert Rogerson
- Samuel Morse
- Samuel Slater
- Stephen Wilcox
- Thaddeus Leavitt
- William Madison Wood
- William Weston (engineer)
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Goodyear
Also known as Goodyear, Charles.