Inventors . enius and nature was a rare combination of solid intel-lect and delicate sensibility. Thoughtful, sober,and quiet, he readily entered into the enjoymentsof domestic and social life, indulging in sallies ofhumor, and readily appreciating and greatly en-joying the wit of others. Dignified in his inter-course with men, courteous and affable with thegentler sex, he was a good husband, a judiciousfather, a generous and faithful friend. He hadthe misfortune to incur the hostility of men whowould deprive him of the merit and the rewardof his labors. But his was the common fa
Inventors . enius and nature was a rare combination of solid intel-lect and delicate sensibility. Thoughtful, sober,and quiet, he readily entered into the enjoymentsof domestic and social life, indulging in sallies ofhumor, and readily appreciating and greatly en-joying the wit of others. Dignified in his inter-course with men, courteous and affable with thegentler sex, he was a good husband, a judiciousfather, a generous and faithful friend. He hadthe misfortune to incur the hostility of men whowould deprive him of the merit and the rewardof his labors. But his was the common fate ofgreat inventors. He lived until his rights werevindicated by every tribunal to which they couldbe referred, and acknowledged by all civilized 154 nations. And he died leaving to his children a O spotless and illustrious name, and to his countrythe honor of having given birth to the onlyelectro-magnetic recording telegraph whose linehas gone out through all the earth and its wordsto the end of the Charles Goodyear. VI. CHARLES GOODYEAR. INDIA-RUBBER had been known for more thana hundred years when Charles Goodyear under-took to make of it thousands of articles useful incommon life. So long ago as 1735 a party ofFrench astronomers discovered in Peru a curi-ous tree that yielded the natives a peculiar gumor sap which they collected in clay sap became hard when exposed to the sun,and was used by the natives, who made differentarticles of every-day use from it by dipping aclay mould again and again into the the article was completed the clay mouldwas broken to pieces and shaken out. In thismanner they made a kind of rough shoe and anequally rough bottle. In some parts of SouthAmerica the natives presented their guests withthese bottles, which served as syringes forsquirting water. Articles thus made were liableto become stiff and unmanageable in cold weatherand soft and sticky in warm. Upon getting backto France the travellers directed the atten
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