PBS
Pbs: Who Made America?: Innovators: Charles Goodyear
One-page profile of influential innovator, Charles Goodyear, whose vision and ideas created vulcanized rubber that would become an industrial staple in manufacturing goods.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Inventor of the Week: Charles Goodyear (1800 60)
Brief article, with biographical details, about Charles Goodyear's invention of vulcanization, a process to make rubber durable for industrial use.