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SCOTCHGARD In 1953 Patsy Sherman, one of the few women chemists at a major corporation, was researching in 3M's labs ways to create a rubber material that aircraft fuel couldn't destroy. Her assistant accidentally knocked over a bottle of synthetic latex onto her new sneakers. Soap, alcohol and...
TEFLON In 1938 Roy Plunkett, a young Du Pont chemist, was trying to find a new kind of refrigerant for manufacturers and filled a tank with a gas related to Freon. When he opened it later, he found he had accidentally created a slippery white powder. General Leslie Groves, heading...
DIED. BETTY FRIEDAN, 85, icon of postwar American liberalism who wrote the 1963 best seller The Feminine Mystique, which explored the "sense of dissatisfaction" among midcentury women who "made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children," while secretly wondering, "Is this all...
Brian Jungen still remembers what first attracted him to the idea of using athletic gear as an art material. "It was bizarre looking," he says. "I remember seeing some snowboards in the back of my brother's truck and being struck by how they almost looked monstrous."
“This material really was so rich that it would be of interest to people elsewhere in the country or the world and we should do something to bring it together in a convenient form.”