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 ...

WARRENSVILLE HEIGHTS, Ohio—Perhaps the greatest scientist who ever lived, Isaac Newton, believed in intelligent design, working his entire life to demonstrate that the union of science and the divine ...

Larry Mantle talks with author and journalist Richard Korman about his new biography of inventor Charles Goodyear, The Goodyear Story (Encounter Books), and his quest to find a recipe for making ...

One hundred years ago last week a persevering Yankee named Charles Goodyear brewed some crude rubber, sulfur and white lead on his kitchen stove, discovered vulcanization. That invention changed ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Charles Goodyear (1800–1860) invented “vulcanized” rubber in 1839 when he accidentally left a mixture of India rubber, sulfur and lead oxide on a ...