Charles Macintosh
ABOUT CHARLES MACINTOSH
Chemist and inventor who created the first waterproof fabrics. His name adorned the Mackintosh raincoat.
He worked as a clerk while spending his free time studying chemistry.
He helped James Beaumont Neilson commercialize the hot blast blowing of blast furnaces.
He married Mary Fisher in 1790.
He worked with Jean-Paul Gaultier at Hermes to bring cloth rubber into high fashion.
