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Franklin Augustus "Frank" Seiberling (October 6, 1859 – August 11, 1955), also known as F.A. Seiberling, was an American innovator and entrepreneur best known for co-founding the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company in 1898 and the Seiberling Rubber Company in 1921.
The Seiberling Rubber Company was an American tire manufacturer for motor vehicles. Seiberling Tires ad from 1922. In 1898 Frank A. Seiberling acquired an old strawboard factory in Akron, Ohio and founded the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company (naming it after Charles Goodyear, the inventor of vulcanized rubber). He served as the company's ...
Founded in 1898 by Frank Seiberling, the company was named after American Charles Goodyear (1800–1860), inventor of vulcanized rubber. The first Goodyear tires became popular because they were easily detachable and required little maintenance. [ 5 ]
The estate was built between 1912 and 1915 for F. A. Seiberling, co-founder of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, and his wife, Gertrude Ferguson Penfield Seiberling.. They named their "American Country Estate" Stan Hywet, loosely translated from Old English meaning "stone quarry" or "stone hewn," to reflect the site's earlier use and the abandoned stone quarries located on the grounds of ...
In 1898, almost four decades after his death, The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company was founded and named after Goodyear by Frank Seiberling. [13] On February 8, 1976, he was among six individuals selected for induction into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. [14] In Woburn, Massachusetts, there is an elementary school named after him. [15]
Frank Seiberling – inventor and founder of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, Seiberling Rubber Company, Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens [177] [178] [179] George Westinghouse; John Seiberling – founder and inventor of one of the first reaping machines [177] [178] [179] Isaac Singer – inventor, actor, and sewing machine entrepreneur [180]
Seiberling is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Francis Seiberling (1870–1945), American politician; Frank Seiberling (1859–1955), American businessman; John F. Seiberling (1918–2008), American politician; It may also refer to: Seiberling Rubber Company, founded by Frank Seiberling
Frank Seiberling; Henrietta Buckler Seiberling; John F. Seiberling This page was last edited on 15 October 2023, at 03:59 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...