The Goodyear Story
From kwharrison13.com · Anti-library
The Goodyear Story
| Author | Richard Korman |
|---|---|
| Published | 2002 |
| Pages | 226 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Charles Goodyear spent years and most of his family’s security chasing a way to make rubber stable in heat and cold, stumbled onto vulcanisation, and spent the rest of his life litigating the patent while others got rich off it — including the tyre company that later took his name without ever employing him. An inventor’s-obsession story and a case study in the gap between inventing something and capturing its value. |
Where I heard about it
- @mastersinvest — on his “2025 Reading … so far” list (August 2025) — not in bold, so read but not singled out as very good. The full 46-title list is on 2025 Reading So Far… (tweet).
Connections
- 2025 Reading So Far… (tweet) — the list this came from.
- Patents — Goodyear’s patent fights are the spine of the second half of the book.
- Intellectual Property — an early, brutal illustration of invention without value capture.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.