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 on 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 being wiped 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 had to worry about rain.
This novelty spread quickly. When colleagues in the factory learned about it, they also followed McIndus's example and made waterproof tape raincoats.
Later, the growing reputation of the tape raincoat attracted the attention of British metallurgist Parkes, who also became interested in studying this special clothing.
Parks felt that although the rubberized clothes were impermeable, they were hard and brittle and were 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.