Hubert, Philip Gengembre, 1852-1925 · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 165
ld deprive him of the merit and the rewardof his labors. But his was the common fate ofgreat inventors. He lived until his rights werevindicated by every tribunal to which they couldbe referred, and acknowledged by all civilized 154 INVENTORS nations. And he died leaving to his children aspotless… … Charles Goodyear. VI. CHARLES GOODYEAR. India-rubber had been known for more thana hundred years when Charles Goodyear under-took to make of it thousands of articles useful incommon life. So long ago as 1735 a party ofFrench astronomers discovered in Peru a curi-ous tree that yielded the natives a…
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