Sang+Woo+N.+-+I+am+Charles+Goodyear

My "I am" person is Charles Goodyear. He discovered the process of making natural rubber into a more useful substance and is best known for discovering this process called vulcanization which makes raw rubber resistant to heat and cold. Some questions I had were "how did he obtain enough rubber to experiment with when he was so poor?", "what led him to want to work with rubber?", "what did his wife think about his experiments", "how and why was he so persistent", and "what happened to his family?" However, my main question was:


 * Why was he so fascinated by rubber and perseverant in making it useful and processing it?**

=Timeline=

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=Primary Sources= Document Audio Visual**
 * [|Letter from Henry A. Waxman]
 * [|Letters Patent No. 240]
 * [|Patent No. 3633]
 * [|Letter to his wife]
 * [|Family letters]
 * [|Rubber Company VS. Goodyear Court Cases]
 * Video
 * [|Photos]
 * [|Rubber Store Advertisment]
 * [|Illustrated American Biography]
 * Quotes**
 * "Life should not be estimated exclusively by the standard of dollars and cents. I am not disposed to complain that I have planted and others have gathered the fruits. A man has cause for regret only when he sows and no one reaps."
 * "Goodyear Corporate || The Charles Goodyear Story." __Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company__. 25 Mar. 2008 <[|http://www.goodyear.com/corporate/history/history_story.html>.]
 * "He took Goodyear to the back where there were piles and piles of these rank, foul-smelling blobs that had been life preservers. He told Goodyear, 'The rubber industry is dying. When it gets hot these things melt and if anybody really wanted to make his mark as an inventor he should find a way to prevent this from happening.'"
 * "Failure Magazine-Archives-History-Charles Goodyear." __Failure Magazine__. 26 Mar. 2008 <[|http://www.failuremag.com/arch_history_charles_goodyear.html>.]
 * "It may, therefore, be considered as one of those cases where the leading of the Creator providentially aids his creatures by what are termed accidents, to attain those things which are not attainable by the powers of reasoning he has conferred on them."
 * "Goodyear's Accident." __Polymer Science Learning Center__. 27 Mar. 2008 <[|http://pslc.ws/tour/rubber/bepisode/vulcan.htm>.]
 * ”If you meet a man who has on an India-rubber cap, stock, coat, vest, and shoes, with an India-rubber money purse without a cent of money in it, that is he .”
 * "AmericanHeritage.com / Charles Goodyear." __American History from AmericanHeritage.com__. 28 Mar. 2008 .

=Secondary Sources=
 * [|"I am..." Diigo Bookmarks]