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4 unusual facts about NYLON


Closer/Sweet Dreams

"Closer/Sweet Dreams" is the second single from Nylon.

MA-1 bomber jacket

Nylon had been discovered prior to World War II but it was not used in flight clothing until after the war, possibly because the demand for nylon for items such as parachutes consumed the available supply during the war.

NY-LON

For the concept of New York City and London as "a single city separated by an ocean", which is also sometimes spelled "NY-Lon", see NYLON.

Nylon

In the mid-1940s, classical guitarist Andrés Segovia mentioned the shortage of good guitar strings in the United States, particularly his favorite Pirastro catgut strings, to a number of foreign diplomats at a party, including General Lindeman of the British Embassy.


72 pattern webbing

It was made from PU-coated nylon to counter the Soviet NBC capability.

Alice Roi

Her work has appeared in magazines such as Bazaar, Elle, Nylon, and in stores like Henri Bendel (New York), Beauty Buy (Paris), and Joyce (Hong Kong).

Ballistic nylon

It was not an effective defense against most pistol or rifle rounds (ballistic nylon has been replaced by Kevlar and other, more effective, bullet resistant fabrics for these cases) let alone the heavy 20mm and 30mm autocannons Axis fighters were often armed with.

Beta cloth

It was implemented in NASA space suits after the deadly 1967 Apollo 1 launch pad fire, in which the astronauts' nylon suits burned through.

British Nylon Spinners

In 1953 the company provided nylon to John Southworth and Sons of Manchester to make special clothing for the Everest Expedition.

Caving equipment

Early systems of ascending ropes were developed by Pierre Chevalier in the Dent de Crolles cave system in France in the late 1930s, Chevalier also being the first to use nylon rope in a cave as opposed to natural fibre rope.

Efecto Dominó

Chetes: vocals, acoustic guitar, bariton guitar, nylon string guitar, electric guitar, resonator guitar, optigan, harpsichord, banjo on "La primera vez", string arrangements for "Ahora", toy piano, stylophone, rhodes, mellotron, piano

In the Key of Disney

Probyn Gregory - Vocals, Slide guitar, Trumpet, Banjo, Organ, Vibraphone, Electric Guitar, Nylon String Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Electric 12-String Guitar, Guitar solo (on track 8), Ukulele, Tannerin, Toy instruments

Keep Your Hands off My Girl

It was directed by Nylon editor-in-chief Marvin Scott Jarrett, who also directed the band's rockumentary, Fast Future Generation.

Melanie Pullen

Pullen's photographic series have also been featured in numerous publications and broadcasts including: San Francisco Chronicle, New York Times Magazine, LA Times, ArtReview, The London Independent on Sunday Review, Vogue, Elle, Fortune, W, GQ, RollingStone, Nylon, Photo, Art Forum, National Public Radio, CBS Radio and CBS News.

Mk 6 helmet

The Mk 6 is often mistakenly thought to be made out of Kevlar when in fact it is constructed of "Ballistic Nylon" - nylon fibre.

NYCO

:This article is about a rock group named NYCO, but NYCO is also the acronym of the New York City Opera as well as NYCO Synthetic Lubricants and is also a textile made up of a mix of nylon and cotton.

Nylon 6

It can also be used in gun frames, such as those used by Glock, which are made with a composite of Nylon 6 and other polymers.

Pit cave

The scaling-pole (1940), nylon ropes (1942), use of explosives in caves (1947) and mechanical rope-ascenders (Henri Brenot's "monkeys", first used by Chevalier and Brenot in a cave in 1934) can be traced historically to the exploration of the Dent de Crolles cave system.

Power tool

In 1956, under the influence of Dr. Hans Erich Slany, Robert Bosch GmbH was one of the first companies to introduce a power tool housing made of glass filled nylon.

Raincoat

Modern raincoats are often constructed of breathable, waterproof fabrics such as Gore-Tex or Tyvek and coated nylons.

Sheldon E. Isakoff

His major contributions include the development of EFT Dacron and nylon processes, improvements to Mylar and Cronar process, and the establishment of the first Lycra plant in the world.

Solid

Polymers which have been around, and which are in current widespread use, include carbon-based polyethylene, polypropylene, polyvinyl chloride, polystyrene, nylons, polyesters, acrylics, polyurethane, and polycarbonates, and silicon-based silicones.

SUMPAC

Originally covered with silver-doped Nylon the aircraft now sports a transparent plastic skin on the fuselage.

Tatiana Lyadockrina

Lyadockrina began her modeling career with New York Model Management in 2005 and was featured on the covers of Canadian Nylon magazine in August of the same year and then participated in both Anna Molinari show in Milan which was in September and Parisian Fashion Week in October where she posed in Chanel, Christian Dior, Givenchy, and Lanvin clothes as well as posing with Suzanne Diaz for Italian language Glamour.

Textile-reinforced concrete

The fibres used for making the fabric are of high tenacity like Jute, Glass Fibre, Kevlar, Polypropylene, Polyamides (Nylon) etc.

Timeline of Goan history

One person was killed during violent protests by farmers and environmental activists opposed to the construction of a Thapar-DuPont Nylon 6,6 nylon cord yarn factory which they feared would pollute the state's extensive river system.


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