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 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, ...

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

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 ...

Joseph Kuczkowski came into the rubber industry as a chemist when research was still done for research's sake. This year's recipient of the ACS Rubber Division's Charles Goodyear Medal—the association ...

LAWRENCEVILLE, N.J—Edward Kresge, a pioneer in the development of numerous polymers, holder of more than 50 elastomer-related patents and the 2010 Charles Goodyear Medal honoree, died Oct. 30 ...

N ext month, the Yale corporation will meet to discuss major campus issues this is the second in a four part series on its members. D avid Shimer reports following an Octover interview with Charles ...

A $4,999 federal grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services awarded by the State Library of Ohio funded restoration of the portrait of the man for whom Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. was ...