October 27, 1938 was a special day in the history of nylon. For it was on that day that its makers announced it officially, to a crowd of 4,000 women. A.S.Ganesh takes a look at how this fibre came to ...

DuPont debuted the material at the 1939 World's Fair, revolutionizing fashion forever when nylon stockings hit the market a year later in 1940. The Science History Institute even attributes the first ...