# Wallace H Carothers — Patents explained on PatentBrief

Wallace H Carothers has 1 landmark patent explained in plain English on PatentBrief.

- [How Wallace Carothers Invented Nylon](https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/2130523/nylon-polyamide-carothers) — granted 1938
  The foundational 1935 patent for synthetic linear polyamides, the chemical process that created the material we now call nylon.

**Full profile:** https://patentbrief.org/inventor/wallace-h-carothers

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