CWDigitalDigest A Goodyear Story - Vol. V, Episode 23

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In this episode, we travel to Pittsburgh to talk with Mike Woshner who is an expert, author, and researcher on rubber during the 19th century. He tells us the story of an innovator of India and hard rubber, Charles Goodyear. The story of Charles Goodyear is one of failure and success as he pursues his passion and obsession - bringing an India-rubber world to reality for the benefit of everyone.


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Of course Goodyear's history is fascinating, thanks.

A related but less-popularly-cited aside is that gutta percha was an equally-important, perhaps for a while more-important, plant-derived material (from Malaysia) in Antebellum times. (search Gutta Percha Company, London).

Gutta percha had exclusive properties that enabled undersea telegraph cables, which in concert with clipper ships "reduced the size of the world" considerably in the years leading up to the ACW (even without the trans-Atlantic cable), being in turn a major influence on the ACW's outcome -- in the North telegraph had quickened British speculation in gold exploration, clipper ships and railroads, and in the South telegraph quickened British investment in East Indian cotton, railroads and clipper ship routes such that, by the latter part of the war, the Confederacy's primary leverage with the rest of the world was co-opted.
 
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Of course Goodyear's history is fascinating, thanks.

A related but less-popularly-cited aside is that gutta percha was an equally-important, perhaps for a while more-important, plant-derived material (from Malaysia) in Antebellum times. (search Gutta Percha Company, London).

Gutta percha had exclusive properties that enabled undersea telegraph cables, which in concert with clipper ships "reduced the size of the world" considerably in the years leading up to the ACW (even without the trans-Atlantic cable), being in turn a major influence on the ACW's outcome -- in the North telegraph had quickened British speculation in gold exploration, clipper ships and railroads, and in the South telegraph quickened British investment in East Indian cotton, railroads and clipper ship routes such that, by the latter part of the war, the Confederacy's primary leverage with the rest of the world was co-opted.

Interesting! The "black" mourning jewelry of choice was "Whitby Jet" however there was a lot of "Gutta Percha" jewelry/accessories like fan frames etc. which I believe may have been a bit more affordable. Am I wrong?
 
Growing up in a suburb of Cleveland back in the 70's I remember many rock concerts being held at the "Akron Rubber Bowl!" and were advertised on local radio like WIXY (am), WMMS and WNCR radio.
"In 1898, Frank Seiberling established the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company in Akron, Ohio.
The company was named for Charles Goodyear, the man who developed vulcanized rubber."
If only Seiberling would know the legacy of his "rubber" :giggle:

The lists below are not complete:


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July 6 1956 Liberace


June 16 1972 Three Dog Night -w- James Gang featuring Joe Walsh.


July 3 1972 Rod Stewart-w- Badfinger


July 11 1972 Rolling Stones-w- Stevie Wonder


July 17 1972 Black Sabbath-w- Humble Pie and Edgar Winter


July 21 1972 The Osmonds


Aug 5 1972 Alice Cooper


Aug 11 1972 Yes


Aug 21 1972 Jefferson Airplane


July 19 1983 Simon and Garfunkel


July 2 1986 Bob Dylan-w- Grateful Dead and Tom Petty


June 22-23 1988 ( Monsters of Rock) Van Halen-w- Scorpions, Metallica, Dokken, and Kingdom Come


July 3 1989 Bon Jovi-w- Cinderella, Winger, BulletBoys


May 31 1997 ( Veterans Memorial Jam) Ringo Starr-w- Aretha Franklin, Three Dog Night



July 14 1998 ( Ozzfest) Ozzy Osbourne, Megadeth, Tool, Limp Bizkit, Motorhead, Incubus, Sevendust, System of Down, the Melvins, Coal Chamber and Soulfly



 
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