McIntosh, the inventor of the tape raincoat In a rubber factory in Scotland, England, there was a worker named McIntosh. One day in 1823, while working, McIndus accidentally dripped rubber solution onto his clothes. After he discovered it, he quickly wiped it with his hands. Unexpectedly, the rubber liquid seemed to have penetrated into his clothes. Instead of wiping it off, it was smeared all over. However, McIndus was a poor worker and he was reluctant to throw away this piece of clothing, so he still wore it to and from get off work. Soon, McIndus discovered that the rubberized area on this piece of clothing seemed to be coated with a layer of waterproof glue. Although it looked ugly, it was not waterproof. He had an idea and simply coated the entire piece of clothing with rubber, and the result was a piece of clothing that could repel rainwater. With this new style of clothing, McIndus no longer has to worry about rain. This novelty spread quickly. When colleagues in the factory learned about it, they also followed McIndus's approach and made waterproof tape raincoats. Later, the reputation of tape raincoats grew, attracting the attention of British metallurgist Parkes, who also studied this special clothing with great interest. Parks felt that although the rubberized clothes were impermeable, they were hard and brittle, making them neither beautiful nor comfortable to wear. Parks decided to make some improvements to this kind of clothing. Unexpectedly, this improvement actually took more than ten years of effort. It was not until 1884 that Parks invented the technology of using carbon disulfide as a solvent to dissolve rubber to make waterproofing products, and applied for a patent. In order to quickly apply this invention to production and transform it into commercial products, Parks sold the patent to a man named Charles. After that, farmers began to produce in large quantities, and the trade name "Charles Raincoat Company" soon became popular all over the world. However, people have not forgotten McIndus's contribution, and everyone calls the raincoat "McIndus". Until now, the word "raincoat" is still called "mackintosh" in English.