About Nathaniel Hayward
Lived 1808 – 1865 (aged 57). Nathaniel Hayward was an American inventor.
Nathaniel Manley Hayward (January 19, 1808 – July 18, 1865) was an American businessman and inventor best known for selling a patent to Charles Goodyear that Goodyear later used to develop the process of vulcanization.
Biography Nathaniel Hayward was born in Easton, Massachusetts on January 19, 1808.
Hayward met Goodyear in 1837 and shared with him the discovery he had made, almost accidentally, while working at a rubber factory in Roxbury, Connecticut. He bought some mills in Stoneham, Massachusetts, from Elisha S. Converse, which later became a small settlement called Haywardville.
He died in Colchester, Connecticut on July 18, 1865.
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Who was Nathaniel Hayward?
American inventor (1808–1865)
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Nathaniel Hayward was born on 19 January 1808 in Easton.
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Nathaniel Hayward died on 18 July 1865 in Colchester.
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Nathaniel Hayward was an inventor.
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