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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