About this episode

This episode discusses Charles Goodyear's significant contributions to the development of vulcanized rubber and the challenges he faced in his life and work.

Charles Goodyear's work is important to so many things we have in the 21st century. But his life and his work to create a stable rubber was full of problems -- many of them caused by Goodyear himself.

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