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 ...

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

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 ...

Charles Goodyear's obsession began one auspicious day in New York. He’d always been a tinkerer and a new “miracle” substance, rubber, had caught his fancy. He’d developed an improved valve for a ...

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

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 ...

Charles Goodyear's name lives on as well, adopted in his honor nearly 40 years after his death by a new rubber company based in Akron, Ohio. Today, ...

Gert Heinrich, winner of the 2025 Charles Goodyear Medal, grew up in East Germany during the height of the Cold War—eager to expand his intellectual horizons, but prevented from fully doing do at the ...

Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science have developed a new polymer design that ...

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 ...

When Charles Pilliod began working as a trainee in a Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. factory in 1941, his pay was 67 cents an hour. He rose to become chief executive in the 1970s and, former colleagues ...