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Johnson, Thomas
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...George Bowles and by 1631 with John Goodyear, who with John Parkinson and Johnson...John Parkinson, George Bowles, John Goodyear, and others are acknowledged by name...figures and eventually, with his friend Goodyear, to publish their histories; and he...
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Rubber
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...pharmacist Petter-Jonas Bergius, it remained for Charles Goodyear to solve the basic technical problem confronting early rubber...production had come to be dominated by the "Big Four": Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, United States Rubber Company, B...
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Industrial Research
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...General Electric (1900), Dow (1900), DuPont (1902), Goodyear (1909), and American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&...Whitney (the cotton gin), Samuel Morse (telegraph), Charles Goodyear (vulcanization of rubber), and Cyrus McCormick (the reaper...
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Museum of Modern Art
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art
...first formal meeting as trustees; the industrialist A. Conger Goodyear (1877–1964) was elected president, Miss Bliss...acquisitions—eight prints and a drawing—and Goodyear had presented the first sculpture to enter the collection...
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Phoenix
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...income, with farming and tourism in second and third places. Major firms in the 1950s included Motorola, General Electric, Goodyear Aircraft, Kaiser Aircraft and Electronics, Ai-Research, and Sperry Rand. Business initiative, sunny days, and modern...
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Automobile Industry
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...by the United States government to produce 10,000 muskets that would be identical to each other. In the 1830s, Charles Goodyear discovered that sulphur mixed with boiling natural rubber created a material that was not prone to melting under friction...
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Dirigibles
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...possibility of the airship's becoming an aircraft carrier. In 1925 the army procured the semirigid RS-1, fabricated by the Goodyear-Zeppelin Corporation and erected by the army's center of lighter-than-air aeronautics at Scott Field, Illinois. The...
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Flynn, Errol
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
...company; 1956—TV debut in Playhouse 90 ; 1957–58—host of TV series The Errol Flynn Theater (Goodyear Theater ); 1958—in play The Master of Thornfield in Detroit and Cincinnati. Died: 14 October 1959. Films as...
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Black Sunday
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
...explosives, and a disaffected, perhaps insane former American soldier, who acts as their pilot, the group arrange to hijack the Goodyear blimp, normally used to help broadcast the game, load it with a bomb composed of plastique and a quarter million steel darts...
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Boot and Shoe Manufacturing
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...bears the name of Col. Gordon McKay, who improved and marketed it during the Civil War); and the perfection, by Charles Goodyear, Jr., by 1875 of Auguste Deystouy's welt-stitching machine for joining the upper and sole. The advantages of machines...
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