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Wallace Carothers

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16th February 1937: Wallace Carothers receives a patent for nylon

 

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Wallace Carothers - Pretty Polly Nylons

 

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DuPont Nylon is Still Changing the World

 

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Nylon: First Synthetic Fiber - Decades TV Network

 

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Wallace Carothers - Teaser Trailer

Wallace Hume Carothers was an American chemist, inventor and the leader of organic chemistry at DuPont, credited with the invention of nylon.
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