Charles Goodyear – Historic Print
![Charles Goodyear, [no date recorded on caption card] — antique engraving](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/b9/b92615e85ccb-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Charles Goodyear, preserved in this antique engraving. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Charles Goodyear
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Few inventors are remembered as closely as Charles Goodyear, whose name became synonymous with vulcanized rubber. By most accounts he discovered the process in 1839, when a mixture of rubber and sulfur left near a hot stove hardened rather than melting, and he received a U.S. patent in 1844 after years of poverty and debt. This engraving by W.G. Jackman was issued by the New York publisher D. Appleton & Co., which printed many biographical and reference works. The record gives no date, so the print's exact year is uncertain, but it stands as a portrait of a man whose persistence reshaped American manufacturing.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : engraving. |
| Notes | Engraving by W.G. Jackman. D. Appleton & Co., New York. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card and item. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 910 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-110926 |
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