10 Nylon Facts
- The first commercial use of nylon was for toothbrush bristles
- It replaced silk in parachutes for WWII
- Nylon was first invented in the USA
- Wallace's full name is 'Wallace Hume Carothers'
- Nylon is a really useful fabric in lots of ways
- Wallace named the fabric 'Nylon' when he was in the USA
- Nylon is named after the cities New York and London ('ny' for new york and 'lon' for London.)
- Nylon is an elastic fabric
- Nylon is sometimes referred to polyamide
- Nylon was the first fabric to be made with inorganic ingredients-coal,water and air.