Origin of Mackintosh
In 1818, James Syme, a brilliant 19-year-old medical student who later became a professor of surgery at Edinburgh University, found that coal-tar naphtha would dissolve the dried gum of the rubber tree, and that cloth could be water-proofed by pressing thin sheets of the dissolved gum between j pieces of fabric. Charles Macintosh, a manufacturing chemist of Edinburgh, patented Syme’s process in 1823, and I made waterproof garments, which are ■Still commonly called “mackintoshes.” TRAVEL DANGER. Hours in a stuffy railway car ... no wonder germs get their chance. But Pulmonas protect throat, nose and chest from infection. Buck Pulmonas slowly to release antiseptic germ-attacking vapours. In tins, chemists and stores, 1/2, 1/9, 2/9. Manufactured by Stacey Bros. Ltd., Khyber Pass Road, Auck*
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Manawatu Times, Volume 68, Issue 223, 20 September 1943, Page 8
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125Origin of Mackintosh Manawatu Times, Volume 68, Issue 223, 20 September 1943, Page 8
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