Inventor

Wallace H Carothers

Patents indexed

Year range

1938

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Years active

1938

Total patents

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1938

Domains

materialschemical_engineering

Activity by decade

1930s

Patents

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1 patents, in 1938

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How Wallace Carothers Invented Nylon

The foundational 1935 patent for synthetic linear polyamides, the chemical process that created the material we now call nylon.

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