Nylon: Miracle or Marketing?

1949 ad copy, Du Pont.

The Stocking Story: You Be The Historian

First national sale of nylon stockings, May 15, 1940. Courtesy of Pictorial Collections, Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, DE.

Physical and Chemical Properties of Fibers

Polymer dance. Molecules with double bonds represented as dancing couples, who partially separate to form a chain (polymerization).