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          Photo Gallery

            Inventing Nylon
            Producing Nylon
            People
            Nylon Products

          Meet Wallace Carothers

          Building Molecules

            Pure Science
            Making Macromolecules
            Almost Useful
            Polyamides
            Fiber 66

          Producing Nylon

            The Autoclave
            Limiting Molecular Weight
            Heat Transfer
            Nylon Spinning
            Draw Twisting
            To Market

          The Science of Nylon

            Naming Nylon
            Cold Drawing
            Making Nylon
            Nylon Salt
            Acetic Acid and Molecular Weight

          Other Science from Wallace Carothers

            Macromolecular Theory
            Step Growth Polymerization
            Polyesters
            Nylon
            Flory's Theories
            Synthetic Musk
            Polychloroprene

          The Nylon Legacy

            Life Before Nylon
            Life After Nylon
            Flory's Theories
            Stephanie Kwolek and Bulletproof Vests
            The Ones That Got Away
            What Might Have Been

          People

            Gerard Berchet
            Elmer K. Bolton
            Paul J. Flory
            Julian Hill
            Joseph Labovsky
            Edgar W. Spanagel
            Charles M. A. Stine

         


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