It was stumbled upon accidentally in 1938 by a 27-year-old American chemist named Roy Plunkett, while he was trying to develop a non-toxic refrigerant fluid for DuPont, a chemicals company.
它于1938年被一位27岁的美国化偶然发现,的名字叫做 Roy Plunkett,当时正在为杜邦公开发一种无毒制冷剂,那是一化公。
Her employers at DuPont had found huge success with nylon, the world's first synthetic fiber, and they wanted Kwolek to create something even stronger they could use to mass produce durable, lightweight tires.
And so he called in all the young people, DuPont and people like that and they tried this machine with a thicker yarn and that's how they came up with the jersey fabric.
But outside of cars, Banks was no airhead. The first in her family to go to college, she was making six figures as a materials engineer at DuPont when a new calling beckoned.