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The History of Nylon and Nylon Netting
Wallace Hume Carothers is widely considered to be the inventor of nylon and neoprene. A prolific chemist and inventor, Carothers held more than 50 patents. In the 1920’s Carothers became a professor at Harvard and began his research into the chemical properties of polymers.