print email comment close The Nylon Drama URL: http://invention.smithsonian.org/centerpieces/whole_cloth/u7sf/u7materials/nylondrama.html Description: This essay describes how "the tension between a pure-science idealist and a pragmatic corporation resulted in an artificial fiber of historic importance and the biggest money-maker in the history of Du Pont." Includes a description of the beginning of the project in the 1920s through the announcement of nylon's invention for the 1939 New York World's Fair. From the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. Author: Hounshell, David A.; Smith, John Kenly Publisher: Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation, Smithsonian Institution Extra Keywords Wallace Hume Carothers Library of Congress Subject Headings: Nylon Textile fibers, Synthetic LII Database Information: Record 20258 created by Maria Brandt on 01/02/2006 Last modification on 01/04/2006 Published: 01/05/2006   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/20258