Noble Obsession
Subtitle: Charles Goodyear, Thomas Hancock, and the Race to Unlock the Greatest Industrial Secret of the Nineteenth Century
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Hyperion
Published: August 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780786867899
Subjects: History: theory & methods; Manufacturing industries; Rubber technology; Rubber; Historical - U.S; Goodyear Tire and Rubber Compa; United States; History; Biography / Autobiography; Reference; History: World; Inventors; Scientists - Inventors; History / Reference; Science / General; 1800-1860; Biography; Goodyear, Charles,; Hancock, Thomas
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.