William Henry Goodyear (1846 - 1923) was an archaeologist, art historian and museum curator of the United States. He was the son of Charles Goodyear (1800-1860), inventor of the vulcanization of rubber, Goodyear and Clarissa Beecher.
Goodyear was born in New Haven, Connecticut, spent his childhood in England and France, and graduated from Yale University in 1867 with a degree in history. He then moved to Italy, and Berlin (where he studied law and Roman history), and Heidelberg where he studied art history with the archaeologist Karl Friedrichs (1831-1871). 1869, Goodyear went with Friedrichs to Syria and Cyprus, then in 1870 in Venice and Pisa where he studied the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
In 1871, he married Sarah Sanford, wife of the first of three wives, and taught at Cooper Union until 1882, when he was appointed the first curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1888 Goodyear publishes a survey of art history, and in 1890 he was appointed curator of art at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences (now the Brooklyn Museum of Art). From 1895-1914 he held a number of learning where he was taking pictures and measuring buildings in Europe. He died of pneumonia in 1923 and was buried in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn.
At first Charles Goodyear is a former trader who went bankrupt and was imprisoned due to debt. In 1830 the world was experiencing a fever Rubber and Charles Goodyear was interested in the world to cultivate rubber.
In 1839 Goodyear also managed to find a weather-resistant rubber, which stems from the lack accidentally dropped rubber and sulfur as an ingredient mixed into the hot stove and found that the material change have a character like an elastic skin.
Then he was obsessed to make a variety of goods from homemade materials and patented ciptaanya it, but the step was preceded by a British rubber pioneer Thomas Hancock who ironically named retreading method which in his inspired use of sample creation weatherproof rubber Goodyear.
He also tried to fight back through legal channels, but eventually lost and then lost his French patent, not only that, the royalties were canceled.
Goodyear died in 1860 leaving behind a debt of $ 200,000. But the sacrifice and hard work finally Goodyear is not in vain, because his family could enjoy it all through the accumulation of royalties temuanya it, and a more meaningful again, his name has been engraved as a pioneer of the modern world rubber industry.
Goodyear, Starting from the Capital Loan
If we look back, the founding of The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company in 1898 was remarkable. Its founder, Frank Seiberling, purchased the first factory for the company with the first payment of U.S. $ 3,500. He borrowed this money from one-in-law. Rubber and cotton which became the main ingredient in tire industry must be imported from places half a world away, to then be taken to a small town that has no sea port and only have limited access to rail transportation. Even the man, whose name is perpetuated by this company, Charles Goodyear, had died 30 years earlier in a state of bankruptcy even though he is the inventor of vulcanization technique through a long and courageous search.
However, the time is right. In the 1890s, bicycles became very popular. Train without a horse, called by some people with nicknames automobile, started to emerge. The period of depression in the year 1893 coming to an end. So, on August 29, 1898, Goodyear was founded with a share capital of U.S. $ 100,000.
David Hill, who bought shares of U.S. $ 30,000, became the first director. However, it was Frank Seiberling, the founder of a visionary and hard working is what choosing a name and assign a winged foot logo which to date remain an integral part of the Goodyear emblem. This logo reflects attachment to Goodyear on its past history.
There are other interesting things about the early years of this legendary, something that is difficult to be described but they are real. Something about the people. People like Frank Seilberling, which is actually trying to liquidate his family's property in 1898 when he received no other opportunity to buy cheap land area of seven acres which later became the basis of Goodyear. In addition, there are people such as George Stadelman, a man who always avoid the crowds and never made a speech, but it has integrity and vision far into the future and lead the sales of Goodyear through a critical period as long as 20 years. Finally there is Paul Litchfield, who through his faith and his leadership helped inspire Goodyear's development for nearly six decades.
With only 13 employees, Goodyear production began on 21 November 1898, with product line bicycle tires and the carriage, and the hoof as if to reflect the stakes taken by Seiberling, chips to play poker. The first recorded payroll amounted to U.S. $ 217.86 based on the wages of time ranging from 13 cents to 25 cents per hour for 10-hour working day. After walking for a month, sales reached U.S. $ 8,246. Since the first tire produced in 1898, Goodyear continued to paddle towards the status as the world's largest tire company, a title that finally achieved in 1916 when the company adopted the slogan "More people ride the Goodyear tires than the other types." Company into The world's largest rubber company in 1926.
Today, Goodyear's sales exceeded $ 18 billion, even though this company takes 53 years to reach one billion dollars in the first milestone in its history. The company currently has more than 80,000 employees worldwide. Everything starts at a straw-walled factory modified by the river-enable the Little Cuyahoga in Akron, Ohio. Throughout its history, the various achievements that created the first things in the world and various facts and figures appear and reflect the birth of a large company.
