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Careful wording: "DuPont invented nylon"

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Themes: Nylon & synthetic fibers (DuPont)

Cited in chapter 6, note 6

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“Careful wording: ‘DuPont invented nylon’.” Research note.

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Supported for nylon 6,6 by Carothers's DuPont patents (US2071250, 1937; US2130948, 1938), Hagley's records and Hounshell & Smith (1988). Not true of nylon 6 (Schlack, IG Farben, 1938). Safer wording: "Nylon 6,6, the fiber DuPont patented in 1937–38 from Wallace Carothers's research…". You recall reading the broad claim in Deaton's Bedspreads to Broadloom: find the page, and cite the patents rather than the book for the invention itself.