Noble Obsession

"The world had never seen such a substance. Bouncy, stretchable, and moldable - rubber seemed like the miracle stuff of the early nineteenth century. But a major problem soon became clear - it melted in summer and cracked in winter. It would take one obsessed genius - Charles Goodyear - willing to endure years of poverty, hunger, and imprisonment, to reinvent rubber into the indispensable substance it is today.". "Noble Obsession is the tale of how a single-minded genius risked his own life and his family's in a quest to unlock the secrets of rubber, and how Thomas Hancock, a brilliant…