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Title: Newtown's history and historian, Ezra Levan Johnson
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Johnson, Ezra Levan, 1832-1917 Johnson, Jane Eliza (Camp), 1837
Subjects: Newtown (Conn.) -- History Newtown (Conn.) -- Genealogy
Publisher: Newtown, Conn.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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observing the effect of heat on a mixture of rubber and sulphur,
that the heating was the essential factor in the process. It is a
matter for admiration to see how this man, overwhelmed with ideas
and hard-pressed, pursued working out his invention. The way in
which he worked it out is clearly demonstrated by his first publi-
cation on his method for the metallisation of rubber, in which he
gave sufficient instructions for the technical preparation of perfect
rubber goods. And these instructions for the manufacture of soft
rubber have, even up to the present time, lost no essential part of
their technical importance in any of those methods of vulcanization
devised by Goodyear's inventions. By the discovery, Charles
Goodyear enriched the world, but he himself lived and died poor.
In 1856, the factory was destroyed by fire, but was immediately
re-built. The same year, Mr. Dennis C. Gately was made superin-
tendent. He had had an experience of several years with the
Boston Belting Co. and had been associated with Mr. Cheever,
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FABRIC FIRE HOOSE COMPANY
Formerly
N. Y. Belting and Packing Co.

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