The fabric's naming committee tinkered with 'No Run' until it landed on 'Nylon.'
My chemistry teacher told me that Nylon is named after New York and London. The story goes that the experimentors in New York got a different result from the scientists in London due to the difference in lab temperatures.
Neither group would have discovered nylon in isolation as the lab temps would be wrong for the part of the process.. Wallace Carothers spent seven years on this project before achieving success. He discovered when liquid polymers were blown through ultrathin nozzles they quickly solidified in resilient fibers thinner than human hair.
Inventing it was only half the problem; what to call it was the other half. Carothers referred to his brainchild as Fiber 66, and, as its inventor, he didn't appreciate the need for a name more attractive to consumers. Sexier was better, said Du Pont. Its naming committee considered 400 names, one of them Duparooh . Another was"No Run." A good name, except the fabric did run. The committee tinkered with"No Run" until it became"Nylon.
Carothers patented his discovery in 1937. Shortly afterwards, chronic depression led him to commit suicide by drinking cyanide. An odd bit of lore asserts that the name came from the conflation of New York and London , the two cities the product was launched in. Though that's neat pop
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