Father of Raincoat - Charles Macintosh

Charles Macintosh (1766 - 25 July 1843) was a scottish scientish and inventor of waterproof fabrics. The Macintosh raincoat is named for him.

He spent all his life time to science, especially to chemistry and before he was twenty he resigned his clerkship to take science as his life, specifically Chemistry. In this he was highly successful by his various new inventions, which take him to the next level of research.

Here the miracle happened when he was in experiments with one of the byproducts of tar - NAPTHA led to his invention of waterproof fabrics.The soul of Macintosh process was the sandwiching of an impermeable layer of solution of rubber in naptha between two layers of fabric. For his various chemical discoveries he was, in 1823, elected a fellow of  the royal society.

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