Charles Goodyear (December 29 1800 – July 1 1860) was an American inventor who developed a process to vulcanize rubber in 1839 which he improved while living and working in Springfield Massachusetts in 1844 and for which he received patent number 3633 from the United States Patent Office on June 15 1844.Though Goodyear is often credited with its invention modern evidence has proven that the Mesoamericans used stabilized rubber for balls and other objects as early as 1600 BC.
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1800-12-29
birth place
New Haven Connecticut
death date
1860-07-01
death place
New York City
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Charles Goodyear as illustrated in an 1891 Scientific American article
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