Feb. 28, 1935: Sheer Bliss

1935: Nylon is produced for the first time. Credit for the creation of this versatile synthetic goes to Wallace Carothers, a chemist who headed up DuPont’s Experimental Station laboratory in Delaware. Nylon is a synthetic fiber made from coal, water and air. Its first demonstrated use was as a toothbrush bristle in 1938. With the [...]