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Noble Obsession

Noble Obsession Charles Goodyear, Thomas Hancock, and the Race to Unlock the Greatest Industrial Secret of the Nineteenth Century

Paperback (01 Aug 2003)

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Publisher's Synopsis

Traces the 1830s endeavors of Charles Goodyear to reinvent rubber into a usable substance, at the risk of his own life and the lives of his family, and how money hunters and competitor Thomas Hancock ultimately robbed him of fame and fortune. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.

Book information

ISBN: 9780786888566
Publisher: Hyperion Books C/O Little Brown & Co
Imprint: Hyperion Books C/O Little Brown & Co
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Language: English
Number of pages: 274
Weight: 272g
Height: 196mm
Width: 133mm
Spine width: 19mm