Notes on nylon, 1928-1958, ca. 1968 [photocopy].

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Notes on nylon, 1928-1958, ca. 1968 [photocopy].

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The notes describe the development of nylon by E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company and its uses to 1943. In addition to general historical sketches and chronologies, the bulk of the notes are reproductions of company memoranda, technical articles, and patent documents relating to nylon.

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E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Textile Fibers Dept.

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Carothers, Wallace Hume, 1896-1937

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Wallace H. Carothers was born in Burlington Iowa on April 27, 1896. He attended undergraduate and graduate classes at the University of Illinois, Urbana where he studied under Roger Adam. In 1928 after several years teaching undergraduates at Harvard he accepted a position in Du Pont's newly formed fundamental research program. By 1930 he and his group, which included Julian W. Hill and the future Nobel Laureate in chemistry, Paul Flory, discovered both Nylon and Neoprene. Carothers was plagued ...

Labovsky, J. X. (Joseph X.).

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Bolton, Elmer K. (Elmer Keiser), 1886-1968

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