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Summary of Life
What He Did
Effect on Modern Day America
100
Where did he first start experimenting with rubber?
What is jail
100
When he was in jail, what did he experiment with?
What is raw rubber and a rolling pin
100
What is one thing that is used today that was once one of his ideas, that can be used to paint things?
What is rubber paint
200
What was he before he started working with rubber?
What is a hardware merchant
200
How many mailbags was he hired to make?
What is 150
200
What is one thing that is used today that was once one of his ideas, that can be used in your car?
What is car springs
300
Where did he live before he moved to Massachusetts?
What is Philadelphia
300
What did he use to dry the outside of the raw rubber?
What is magnesia
300
What is one thing that is used today that was once one of his ideas, that can be used on ferryboats?
What is ferryboat bumpers
400
Where in Massachusetts did he move to?
What is Woburn
400
What did him and his brother-in-law do together?
What is used interwoven rubber threads to produce clothing
400
What is one thing that is used today that was once one of his ideas, that can be used in the garden?
What is wheelbarrow tires
500
What was he put in jail for?
What is debt
500
What did he apply to the decorated rubber to remove its paint?
What is nitric acid
500
How did he revolutionize the way that rubber is used today?
What is he came up with ways to make rubber dry and harden, and by coming up with new ways to use rubber.