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See also:MACINTOSH, See also:CHARLES (1766-1843) , Scottish chemist and inventor of waterproof fabrics, was See also:born on the 29th of See also:December 1766 at See also:Glasgow, where he was first employed as a clerk. He devoted all his spare See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time to See also:science, particularly See also: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 See also:tar, See also:naphtha, led to his invention of waterproof fabrics, the essence of his patent being the cementing of two thicknesses of See also:india-See also:rubber together, the india-rubber being made soluble by the See also:action of the naphtha. For his various chemical discoveries he was, in 1823, elected F.R.S. He died on the 25th of See also:July 1843.
See See also:George Macintosh, Memoir of C. Macintosh (1847).
End of Article: MACINTOSH, CHARLES (1766-1843)
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