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In the 1840's, Goodyear came up with the first vulcanized rubber galoshes; in the 1870s, he made canvas-and -rubber tennis shoes that were an early version of sneakers. Actual sneakers, however, were invented by the conglomerate that bought Goodyear's shoe company in 1892 -- U.S. Rubber.

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