Did You Know...
...that Charles Goodyear performed some of his experiments on rubber while in debtor's prison? He was there so often he referred to it as his "hotel". Chronically in debt because of poor business sense and ill health, Goodyear depended on the generosity of friends and family. Even after he unlocked the secret to vulcanizing rubber, he was unable to improve his financial situation. When he died, his estate was $200,000 in debt.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4085509 | Apparatus for compensating for the heaving of a floating drilling platform for connection with apparatus for measuring the rate of penetration of pipe run into an offshore well Apparatus adapted to compensate for the heaving of a floating offshore drilling platform, which heaves relative to the ocean bottom due to wave action of the water in which the platform is floating, which heave-compensation apparatus is adapted to be conn... | 04/25/1978 |
