If guitars, piano and voice shape music; and email, texts and blogs shape how we communicate; then nylon shapes ideas. Now celebrating its 80th anniversary, the breakthrough material invented by DuPont Researcher Wallace Carothers in 1935 is credited for making many consumer goods – stockings, toothbrushes, hand-held devices – more affordable, attractive and accessible to everyone around the world. The lightweight material is frequently used to replace metal, lowering weight and cost and inviting design freedom and parts integration.
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