biography
pronunciation:
[makintosh]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1766–1843)
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| biography:
| Manufacturing chemist, born in Glasgow, W Scotland, UK. While trying to find uses for the waste products from gasworks, he developed in 1823 a method of waterproofing cloth, which resulted in the manufacture of the raincoat, or macintosh. |
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