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CHARLES MACINTOSH (1766-1843)

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CHARLES
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MACINTOSH (1766-1843)  , Scottish chemist and inventor of waterproof fabrics, was
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born on the 29th of
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December 1766 at
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Glasgow, where he was first employed as a clerk . He devoted all his spare
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time to
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science, particularly
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chemistry, and before he was twenty resigned his clerkship to take up the manufacture of chemicals . In this he was highly successful, inventing various new processes . His experiments with one of the by-products of
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tar,
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naphtha, led to his invention of waterproof fabrics, the essence of his patent being the cementing of two thicknesses of
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india-
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rubber together, the india-rubber being made soluble by the
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action of the naphtha . For his various chemical discoveries he was, in 1823, elected F.R.S . He died on the 25th of
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July 1843 . See
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George
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Macintosh, Memoir of C . Macintosh (1847) .

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