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Today in History
1823:
Charles Mackintosh began manufacturing waterproof coats. Mackintosh, born in Glasgow, was devoted to science for which he gave up his first job as a clerk. He began experimenting on the by-products of tar and discovered that one such by-product, Naphtha, made India rubber soluble.
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