The Goodyear Story

An Inventor's Obsession and the Struggle for a Rubber Monopoly

• Author(s): Richard Korman,
• Publisher: Encounter Books
• Pages: 230
• ISBN_10: 1893554376
  ISBN_13: 9781893554375
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Biography & Autobiography / General , Biography & Autobiography / Business , Biography & Autobiography / Science & Technology , History / General , History / United States / 19th Century ,

Description:... Richard Korman has written a fascinating biography of an inventor, Charles Goodyear, harnessing a new technology that also provides a panoramic view of America at the onset of its industrial revolution. Drawing on newly discovered archival records, Korman tells a suspenseful story of scientific experimentation and legal struggle in creating a portrait of an eminent American whose eccentricity anticipates the trials of new economy pioneers of today.