The Goodyear Story
Subtitle: An Inventor's Obsession and the Struggle for a Rubber Monopoly
Publisher: Encounter Books
Published: February 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9781893554375
Subjects: History; Revolutionary; Goodyear, Charles,; General; Scientists - Inventors; Biography / Autobiography; History: World; History: American; Historical - General; Business; Biography: general; Manufacturing industries; Rubber; 1800-1860; Goodyear Tire and Rubber Compa; Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
First sentence: In many accounts of post-revolutionary America, New England is pictured as a landscape of frugal farmer-mechanics, barnyard technicians who helped transform the United States from agricultural naif to economic juggernaut.