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American Innovations

Wondery

Steven Johnson, History, Kids & Family, Education For Kids, Science

4.6 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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In a world where materials were limited to wood, leather, metal, and cloth, rubber was something new: a substance that was strong, soft, flexible, and waterproof—but completely undependable. Then along came a 33 year-old hardware merchant named Charles Goodyear, who made it his personal mission to conquer rubber at any cost.

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0:22.8	It's 1835, just after dawn in a squalid neighborhood in Philadelphia.
0:29.2	The city is coming to life.
0:31.2	Carts rattle by with food, dogs bark, merchants call out to drum up business.
0:36.7	But Clarissa Goodyear ignores it all.
0:39.5	She ducts her eyes and makes her way toward a massive white stone building in the center of the city.
0:45.5	Arch street prison.
0:48.0	She approaches a jaylor at the gate.
0:50.5	I'm here to see my husband, Charles Goodyear.
0:53.2	Why is he here?
0:54.6	Clarissa's own children, back at home, have been asking the same question about their father.
0:59.7	She's not quite sure how to explain it.
1:02.5	Well, we've run into some trouble lately.
1:05.0	There was an incident at the bank.
1:07.2	He robbed it?
1:07.9	No, no, it's dead.
1:09.5	He's in for debt.
1:10.8	Deadbeat, huh?
1:12.2	Down the passage, last hallway on the left.
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