Harvard researchers have developed a way to make rubber 10 times stronger by modifying the vulcanization process.

All it took was a change to the long-accepted, high-intensity vulcanization process to develop a material that's 10 times ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio—Katrina Cornish has dedicated more than three decades to establishing a source for domestic natural rubber in the U.S.. This, along with her work inventing new technology for ...

NOBLE OBSESSION Charles Goodyear, Thomas Hancock and the Race to Unlock the Greatest Industrial Secret of the Nineteenth Century By Charles Slack Theia/Hyperion 304 pages, $24.95 The vulcanization ...

Mr. Slack discussed his book, [Noble Obsession: Charles Goodyear, Thomas Hancock, and the Race to Unlock the Greatest Industrial Secret of the Nineteenth Century,] published by Hyperion. In it, he ...

Goodyear, now the industry’s biggest (with 1938 profit of $6,012,423 on net sales of $165,000,000), was founded in Akron in 1898 by the Seiberling family, has no connection with Inventor ...

In 1839, Charles Goodyear was on the verge of a momentous discovery. Natural rubber is useful within only a narrow temperature window—it becomes a foul-smelling goo at slightly elevated ...

From left, ACS Rubber Division Chair Jim Eddy presents the 2022 Charles Goodyear Medal to Michelin retirees Steve Cron and Tim Rhyne. The duo invented Michelin’s Tweel non-pneumatic tire technology, ...