Industrial Production
- When
- 1844
- Where
- United States
By 1844, Goodyear was producing vulcanized rubber on an industrial scale, and his brother Henry introduced mechanical mixing in place of solvents.
Goodyear worked out a consistent system for hardening rubber, and by 1844 patented the process and was producing the rubber on an industrial scale. Also in 1844, his brother Henry introduced mechanical mixing of the mixture in place of the use of solvents. Several years earlier, Goodyear had started a small factory at Springfield, Massachusetts, to which he moved his primary operations in 1842, though the supplied passages do not tie the 1844 industrial-scale production to a specific site.
Sources
- Vulcanization Wikipedia, revision of 2026-08-26
- Charles Goodyear Wikipedia, revision of 2026-06-28
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