Noble Obsession
Subtitle: Charles Goodyear, Thomas Hancock, and the Race to Unlock the Greatest Industrial Secret of the Nineteenth Century
Publisher: Hyperion
Published: August 13, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780786888566
Subjects: Modern - 19th Century; History; Technology & Industrial Arts; History: World; General; Technical & Manufacturing Trades; History / Modern / 19th Century; Science / General
First sentence: Thomas Hancock sat in his London office on a late summer's day in 1842, turning over a few darkened scraps of material in his hands.