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Article: Slack, Charles. Noble obsession; Charles Goodyear, Thomas Hancock, and the race to unlock the greatest industrial secret of the nineteenth century.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
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- January 1, 2004
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Hyperion. 274p. bibliog. index. c2002. 0-7868-8856-3. $14.95. SA
Charles Slack, a journalist and freelance writer, was browsing through a biographical dictionary when he learned to his surprise that Goodyear Tire was not founded by Charles Goodyear, the New England inventor who made rubber indispensable to the modern world. He dug deeper, and the result is a well-researched and very readable biography primarily of Goodyear, but also of his British rival, Thomas Hancock, the prosperous, meticulous manufacturer of Macintosh raincoats. Goodyear and Hancock were both obsessed by their vision of rubber's potential uses and put endless hours in experiments with the ...