For population 25 years and over in Norwalk: 1  High school or higher: 75.5%. 2  Bachelor's degree or higher: 17.1%. 3  Graduate or professional degree: 3.9 4 %. Unemployed: 8. 5 3%. Mean travel time to work (commute): 28.3 minutes.
STS Tire & Auto Centers was founded in 1958 in Somerset County, N.J. By the early 1980s, the original store in East Brunswick expanded to 20 stores. A series of acquisitions, including that of 17 WTC Tire & Auto Centers across Long Island, catapulted STSâs rapid growth. The dealership is 100% owned by its employees in an ESOP.
And those inventors have names that should be recognizable to anyone who's ever bought tires for their car: Michelin, Goodyear, Dunlop. Of these, none had so great an impact on the invention of the tire than John Dunlop and Charles Goodyear. Charles Goodyear and the Invention of Vulcanized Rubber None of it would have been possible without Charles Goodyear, who in 1844 -- more than 50 years before the first rubber tires would appear on cars -- patented a process known as vulcanization.