White Nylon Valve

• The Dole Valve Company
• 1.125 in. H x 2.5 in. W x 3.375 in. D
  Nylon
• On display in Making Modernity
• Gift of John T. and Mollie Marvel
• Carl S. Marvel Papers
• 88:11.360

Description

Nylon, developed in the late 1930s by a team headed by Wallace Carothers at E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, was the first totally synthetic fiber. Developed as a replacement for natural silk, nylon is a simple monomer-chain polymer created by polymerizing a polyamide in a salt mixture.