Women bought a million of it in one day - what is it?
Women bought a million of it in one day - what is it? This invention conquered America in a single day. The application of its material now covers almost every area of life, from the guitar string to the floor mat, from the bag to the car parts. Eighty years ago, on February 16, 1937, the American company DuPont patented the nylon invented by Wallace Hume Carothers. The career of plastic fiber began when it turned out to be excellent as a raw material for stockings that emphasize the line of women. The first record of the production of synthetic materials dates from 1664. It was then that the Englishman Robert Hooke’s Micrographia was published, in which he summarized his microscopic observations and also raised the idea of a silk-like man-made fiber. It took until the 19th century to realize: the first man-made fiber was patented by Georges Audemars in 1855, then several processes were developed for the production of cellulose-based rayon, and finally viscose spread worldw