So, it’s perhaps unsurprising that he figured out a way to rubberize clothes, making them impervious to wind and rain. Now, Macintosh wasn’t the first person to discover that liquid rubber is ...

Charles, a native of Scotland, began experimenting with chemicals and discovered that naphtha was able to dissolve India rubber ... fabric in 1823. The Mackintosh raincoat is named for him ...

With heavy rain expected to blight parts ... stiff in winter and sticky in hot weather. The mackintosh was greatly improved when vulcanised rubber, which resisted temperature changes, became ...

discovered that he could create an entirely waterproof garment by merging two fabrics together and coating them in liquid rubber. The first true raincoat was invented, but Macintosh still had a ...

Traditional all-weather raincoats, designed for the ... Scottish inventor Charles Macintosh created the process of spreading rubber onto cotton to make the world's first waterproof material ...

“Today’s Doodle shows Macintosh enjoying a Scottish rain shower whilst testing his ... between a blend of coal-tar naphtha and rubber. According to Today in Science, “The rubber interior ...

In the U.K., raincoats are still called mackintoshes (with a k mysteriously added). Before Macintosh, inventors had been working toward waterproofing fabric with a layer of rubber by dissolving it ...

He's remembered more generally for the raincoat that bears his name. Macintosh, the son of a well ... two sheets of fabric with dissolved India rubber soaked in naphtha. When this concoction ...

p>From left: Burberry Prorsum, $2,795_Mackintosh, $1,463_Hardy Amies, $1,095 The Evolution of Dryness The original Mackintosh raincoats from the 1800s were coated in dissolved rubber–i.e., heavy ...

The Mackintosh raincoat (the variant spelling is now standard ... the essence of his patent being the cementing of two thicknesses of India-rubber together, the India-rubber being made soluble ...

Charles Macintosh, inventor of the raincoat, has been honoured with a ... naphtha - one of the by-products of tar - dissolved india rubber. This discovery led to his invention of waterproof ...