Re: [Rollei] OT: TEFLON (was What did you do in the war? (long))

[Daniel Ridings <daniel.ridings]

And we kick other people off for not keeping to the subject?
Daniel

On Tue, 20 May 2003, Marc James Small wrote:

> At 03:10 AM 5/20/03 -0600, fyodor   wrote:
> >I've usually heard that it was the US Space Program that "gave us" Teflon;
> >and I find the Cold War variant quite lovely, I have to admit.
> >
> >Actually, Teflon was developed at Du Pont's Jackson Laboratory in New
> >Jersey, USA in 1938.
>
> Absolutely, but it did not find a use for other than lab ware until the
> Sneaky Petes pulled it out again in the 1950's for use on arctic gear, and
> it was then publicized by NASA in the early 1960's.  Saran Wrap had a
> somewhat similar background.
>
> Marc
>
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