| Charles Macintosh | |
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 Charles Macintosh |
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| Nationality | British |
| Birth date | 29 December 1766 |
| Birth place | Glasgow |
| Date of death | 25 July 1843 |
| Place of death | Dunchattan |
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| Significant advance | Waterproof clothes |
Charles Macintosh (29 December 1766 – 25 July 1843) was a British chemist and inventor of waterproof fabrics. The Mackintosh raincoat (the variant spelling is now standard) is named for him.
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Biography
Macintosh was born in Glasgow, where he was first employed as a clerk. He devoted all his spare time to science, particularly chemistry, and before he was twenty resigned his clerkship to take up the manufacture of chemicals. In this he was highly successful, inventing various new processes. His experiments with one of the by-products of tar, naphtha, led to his invention of waterproof fabrics, the essence of his patent being the cementing of two thicknesses of India-rubber together, the India-rubber being made soluble by the action of the naphtha. For his various chemical discoveries he was, in 1823, elected a fellow of the Royal Society.
Macintosh married, in 1790, Mary Fisher, daughter of Alexander Fisher a merchant of Glasgow.[1] Charles Macintosh died in 1843 at Dunchattan, Scotland, and was buried in the churchyard of Glasgow Cathedral.[2]
See also
References
- ^ See page 113 of Dictionary of National Biography, 1893.
- ^ "Charles Macintosh". http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/usbiography/mno/charlesmacintosh.html. Retrieved 2009-07-09.
Further reading
- G. Macintosh, Biographical Memoir of the Late Charles Macintosh, 1847
- R. B. Prosser, ‘Macintosh, Charles (1766–1843)’, rev. Geoffrey V. Morson, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 (Subscription or library card required for online edition)
External links
- "Charles Macintosh". Science on the Streets. University of Strathclyde. http://level2.phys.strath.ac.uk/ScienceOnStreets/charlesmacintosh.html. Retrieved 2006-04-06.
"Macintosh, Charles". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). 1911.
- This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica, Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
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