The DuPont company’s organic chemist Wallace Carothers received a patent for linear condensation polymers, the basis of the material better known as nylon.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
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On the 6th March 1869, Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev presented his periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.
Thomas Midgeley Jr. discovered that adding tetraethyl lead to gasoline reduced knocking in automobile engines.
The first U.S. patent was awarded to Samuel Hopkins for an improvement ‘in making Pot ash and Pearl ash by a new Apparatus and Process.’
Marie and Pierre Curie proved the existence of the new element radium when they chemically isolated one-tenth of a gram of pure radium chloride.
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3rd August 1492: Christopher Columbus sets sail from Spain
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9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
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1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
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