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Charles Goodyear was born in New Haven, Connecticut on December 29, 1800 to Amasa and Cynthia Goodyear. Charles’s father was a hardware manufacture and a merchant. Amasa Goodyear built mainly farming tools like hayforks and scythes, which he invented. When Charles was a teenager he wanted to go into the ministry and become a pastor, but his father convinced him that he was a good business man and placed him in the hardware store of the …

…In the summer the soles of our shoes would stick to the pavement and we would never be able to erase on a paper when we made a mistake. It would be a lot more difficult without rubber and the process of vulcanization. Bibliography Bibliography 1. The Great Scientists. Franklin-Hahn. Grolier Educational Corporation. 1989. 2. www.biographyresourcecenter.com “Charles Goodyear”. 3. Dreamers & Doers Inventors Who Changed Our World. Norman Richards. Atheneum Macmillan Publishing Company. 1984. 4. Encarta 1998. Microsort Corporation. “Charles Goodyear”.