Charles
Goodyear (1800-1860)
Barker,
Preston Wallace. Charles Goodyear, Connecticut Yankee and Rubber
Pioneer. Boston: priv. printed, 1940. Straightforward. Illustrated,
but not scholarly and lacking the interesting style of a popular
work.
Peirce,
Bradford Kinney. Trials of an Inventor: Life and Discoveries
of Charles Goodyear. New York: Carlton & Porter, 1866.
Standard nineteenth-century appreciation in standard Victorian
prose. 224 small pages of large print.
Regli,
Adolph C. Rubber's Goodyear: The Story of a Man's Perserverance.
New York: J. Messner, 1941. For high-school or good junior-high-school
readers. Much made-up dialog; not a serious study.
Wolf,
Ralph Frank. India Rubber Man: The Story of Charles Goodyear.
Caldwell, Id.: Caxwell Printers, 1939. Index, bibliography, no
citations. Journalistic, but sound. Highly readable. The preferred
work. "Today almost the whole colossal, world-wide rubber
industry owes its being to this one queer fanatical fellow. (p.
279)
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