About Nylon
Nylon is a synthetic plastic, also known as polymer, it is made from coal water and air. Nylon was invented on February 28, 1925 by Wallace Carothers at the E.I du Pont de Nemours Chemical Company of Wilmington, Delaware, USA. Nylon was announced to public three years after the invention, (1938). In 1938 the first nylon products were: a nylon toothbrush, which went on sale February 24, 1938 and woman's stockings, went on sale May 15th 1940. Now days, Nylon fiber is used to make many synthetic fabrics, and solid nylon is used as a engineering material.
A bit about Wallace Carothers
Wallace Carothers was born in Burlington, Iowa. He was the leader of organic chemistry at du Pont. Carothers began his academic career as a faculty member of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1924. In 1926, he decided to move to Harvard University. In 1928, he went to du Pont to work on polymers. Carothers was a devoted reader of poetry and lover of classical music. Carothers thought to suffer from maniac-depression, and committed suicide in 1937, he died at the age of 41.