Nylon

Nylon is a material invented by Wallace Carothers in Dupont Corporation, USA. Carother is the main director of research centre and he was a chemistry student who specialized in polymers, that are molecules composed of long chains of atoms. Nylon is a strong but fine synthetic fibre, is was patented in 1935 and mass produced in 1939. It's applicated for stockings, toothbrushes, parachutes, fishing lines and surgical thread.