It worked! Carothers drew out fibers that were long, strong, and very elastic. Du Pont named this product nylon. The chemists called it Nylon 66 because the adipic acid and hexamethylene diamine ...

DuPont had patented nylon in 1938 and just two years later, it was about to cash in on the invention — big time. On that first day of sales in Wilmington, 780,000 pairs of nylons were sold the ...

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DuPont wanted to develop a synthetic fiber that ... The corporation patented it as "nylon" the following year. In the course of this discovery, Carothers published 31 papers, establishing general ...

DuPont pioneered the creation of cellophane in the 1920s and Teflon, Neoprene and nylon in the 1930s. Through the years, the company MarketBeat DuPont Is the Unexpected Benefactor of the AI Boom ...