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Charles Macintosh
(29 Dec 1766 - 25 Jul 1843)
Scottish chemist and inventor who created a waterproof cloth used for clothing. Waterproof coats are still known by his name, or the shorter word “mac.”
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Quotes by others about Charles Macintosh (1)
The number of travellers by gigs, the outside of coaches, and on horseback, have, since the introduction of railways, been prodigiously diminished; and as, in addition, the members of the medical faculty having lent their aid to run down the use of water-proof (apparently having found it decided enemy against their best friends colds and catarrhs), the use of the article [the Macintosh] in the form of cloaks, etc., has of late become comparatively extinct.
A Biographical Memoir of the late Charles Macintosh Esq FRS (1847), 89.
See also:
- 29 Dec - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Macintosh's birth.
- Charles Macintosh - Biography
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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