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Charles Goodyear invented the process of turning raw rubber into a usable product. Before Goodyear’s invention, rubber melted, decomposed and became sticky in heat. The process Goodyear invented, called vulcanization, solved these problems and created a major world industry. Goodyear was the first American to vulcanize rubber, a
