. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . an whorefuse to acknowledge defeat. A sketch of the life of Charles Good-year, which was prepared for the Chris-tian Science Monitor, says: His family was long dependent on thehelp of friends, or. as Mr. Goodyear him-self was frank to declare, on actual char- to lead nowhere. It was said of him inthe town that if you were to meet a manall clothed in rubber, having even anIndia rubber purse without a penny in it,that was Charles Goodyear. A glance at the portrait printed inGeorge lies story of
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . an whorefuse to acknowledge defeat. A sketch of the life of Charles Good-year, which was prepared for the Chris-tian Science Monitor, says: His family was long dependent on thehelp of friends, or. as Mr. Goodyear him-self was frank to declare, on actual char- to lead nowhere. It was said of him inthe town that if you were to meet a manall clothed in rubber, having even anIndia rubber purse without a penny in it,that was Charles Goodyear. A glance at the portrait printed inGeorge lies story of American invention,reveals, however, the idealism, the visionof the seer, that sustained Goodyear. Hehad been inclined to the ministry as aboy and faith never left him. It is to benoted that throughout the long strugglehe had no encouragement from the workof other men. The gummy stuff thatcame from Brazil was like suet in hotweather and like iron in cold. The things how long to heat it. Step by step thething goes on to the time when he findsthat he can mix cotton fibers with rubberand make MACHINE FOR CONSTRUCTING BRAKE BEAM HANGERS. ity. He records the gift of a barrel offlour at a time when he had walked 10miles to ask financial succor for his home,where there was neither fire nor tells of meeting a much dreaded cred-itor on the street and of his gratitudewhen a further loan was offered. He evencollected and sold at auction his childrensschool books, which brought him $5 andenabled him to go on with his experi-ments. He was repeatedly thrown intoprison for debt, and worked there withbench and tools to send money to hisfamily. His wife wove and sold reproached him for neglecting hisfamily while he went on and on and thenstill on with the experiments that seemed Goodyear made were thrown back on hishands in a state of dissolution. The ob-stinate stuff stuck his workman fast to thebench when he thought he had overcomeits stickiness. It was by a mer
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