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Charles Goodyear

Phase 1. What I already know? What I want to know? Where can I get more information?

Info: Born in December 29, 1800 New Haven, Connecticut. Died in July 1, 1860 New York. First American to vulcanize tire

What I want to know His childhood, career, business, invention of rubber.

Where can I get info Library, Google, abc-clio

Charles Goodyear was born in December 29, 1800 in New Haven, Connecticut. He was son of Amasa Goodyear and the descendant of Stephen Goodyear who was one of the founders of the colony of Connecticut. When he was young he helped his father run the farm and at 1814 he left to Philadelphia to learn hardware business until he was 21 years old than he came back to Connecticut his homeland and made a partnership in his father in his business. In August 1824 he married Omar Ghori. Two years later his family moved to Philadelphia and opened a hardware store. In the years 1831 to 1832 Goodyear heard about gum elastic and got interested in manufacturing rubber and started experimenting the process of vulcanizing rubber. His final clue and a answer was when he met Nathaniel Hayward in Worburn Massachusetts. Nathaniel was experimenting rubber using sulfer, and later on Goodyear finally got the process and how to vulcanize rubber. Some historians say that his accidentally spilled rubber mixture on a hot stove and realized that heating natural rubber and sulfer created vulcanized rubber. Charles Goodyear died in July 1, 1860 in New York.

Phase 2. My historical question is how did Charles Goodyear die?

The information I hope to find is more detailed information on why Goodyear want to vulcanize rubber and also about his daily life and more about his family, Also I would like to find more information is if he had a partner or someone that helped him through out his whole experiment.

The information resources that I will use to answer my questions are the abc-clio, google, encyclopedia.

The primary sources would be... abc-clio TeachingAmericanHistory Library of Congress

The secondary sources would be..... google wikipedia encyclopedia

Phase 3 PRIMARY SOURCES Document:[|Bibliography of Goodyear] Visual: [|Google images], [|abc–clio], audio:American voices video:Hippo campus?? quote: [|ABC–CLIO]

Phase 4 SECONDARY SOURCES [|Wikipedia.org] [|www.britannica.com] [|www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/68.html] [|www.nndb.com/people/411/000050261/] [|www.goodyear.com/corporate/history/history_story.html]

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