Friday, November 17, 2017
Cause of the name of nylon
DuPont experienced a broad procedure to create names for its new product.[16]:138– 139 In 1940, John W. Eckelberry of DuPont expressed that the letters "nyl" were subjective and the "on" was duplicated from the additions of different strands, for example, cotton and Rayon. A later distribution by DuPont (Context, vol. 7, no. 2, 1978) clarified that the name was initially proposed to be "No-Run" ("run" signifying "unwind"), however was changed to abstain from making such an unjustified claim. Since the items were not by any stretch of the imagination run-verification, the vowels were swapped to create "nuron", which was changed to "nilon" "to influence it to sound less like a nerve tonic". For clearness in articulation, the "I" was changed to "y".[10][19]
