How did NYLON get its name?

Question

NYLON is the fabric which is used in clothes, bags and other utilities.

Answer 1

it was a polymer which apparently was developed together unknowingly in two cities- new york and London..
it is said that they both presented it in the international seminar or something and hence it got its name NY-New York and LON for London..

Answer 2

Nylon Name

Answer 3

Nylon (polyhexamethyleneadipamide) was invented in 1935 by an organic chemist under contract to Du Pont. Wallace Carothers spent seven years on this project before achieving success.

Inventing it was only half the problem; what to call it was the other half. Carothers referred to his brainchild as Fiber 66, but as its inventor it's not surprising he didn't appreciate the need for name more attractive to consumers. Sexier was better, said Du Pont. Its naming committee considered 400 names, one of them Duparooh (short for Du Pont Pulls A Rabbit Out Of Hat). Another was No Run. A good name, except the fabric did run. The committee tinkered with No Run until it became Nylon. (Some like to view "nylon" as a modification of "no run" spelled backwards.) Du Pont did not announce the new fiber until 1938.

An odd bit of lore asserts that the name came from the conflation of New York (NY) and London (Lon), the two cities the product was launched in. Though that's neat pop etymology, it doesn't fit the facts. Nylon stockings hit the market in 1939, after being introduced at the New York World's Fair. London did not play any part in nylon's history.

Equally spurious is the claim the fibre was named for an acronym formed from "Now You've Lost, Old Nippon," supposedly a thumbing of the nose at Japan over its presumed loss of a market for its silk.

Answer 4

The fabric nylon was developed in the DUPont laboratories located in the cities of New York and London during World War II. Hence the name NYLON(NewYorkLONdon)

Answer 5

Nylon has got its name nylon because it was invented by the the co-ordination and a joint effort of two countries United States of America
( New York ) and United Kingdom ( London )
so the word NY has been taken from New York, and LON from London.And that is how this word has been framed NYLON.And the first stuff that has been made from this fabrics is the tooth brush Bristles

Answer 6

The fabric was discovered at the same time at two places that is Newyork and London Hence the name Nylon which represents Ny for Newyork and lon for London.

Answer 7

In 1940 John W. Eckelberry of DuPont stated that the letters "nyl" were arbitrary and the "on" was copied from the names of other fibers such as cotton and rayon. A later publication by DuPont (Context, vol. 7, no. 2, 1978) explained that the name was originally intended to be "No-Run" ("run" meaning "unravel"), but was modified to avoid making such an unjustified claim and to make the word sound better. The story goes that Carothers changed one letter at a time until DuPont's management was satisfied. But he was not involved in the nylon project during the last year of his life, and committed suicide before the name was coined. There is another story (repeated in James Burke's TV series Connections) that another one of the names considered was to be Duparooh for DUpont Pulls A Rabbit Out Of a Hat. Nylon was never trademarked. Another popular myth is that "Nylon" stands for "Now You Lousy Old Nippons". Yet another explanation is that it stands for "New York-London", the source of the chemists working on the materials sythesis, but there is no evidence that nylon was named after New York and London.

Answer 8

NYLON is a fabric used in clothes,bags nad other utilities and it got its name as it was invented in 2 countries at a time i.e NEW YORK AND LONDON so abbrivations were used and the name is given as NYLON.

Answer 9

In 1940 John W. Eckelberry of DuPont stated that the letters "nyl" were arbitrary and the "on" was copied from the names of other fibers such as cotton and rayon. A later publication by DuPont (Context, vol. 7, no. 2, 1978) explained that the name was originally intended to be "No-Run" ("run" meaning "unravel"), but was modified to avoid making such an unjustified claim and to make the word sound better. The story goes that Carothers changed one letter at a time until DuPont's management was satisfied. But he was not involved in the nylon project during the last year of his life, and committed suicide before the name was coined. There is another story (repeated in James Burke's TV series Connections) that another one of the names considered was to be Duparooh for DUpont Pulls A Rabbit Out Of a Hat. Nylon was never trademarked. Another popular myth is that "Nylon" stands for "Now You Lousy Old Nippons". Yet another explanation is that it stands for "New York-London", the source of the chemists working on the materials sythesis, but there is no evidence that nylon was named after New York and London.

Answer 10

Eckelberry of DuPont stated that the letters "nyl" were arbitrary and the "on" was copied from the names of other fibers such as cotton and rayon. A later publication by DuPont (Context, vol. 7, no. 2, 1978) explained that the name was originally intended to be "No-Run" ("run" meaning "unravel"), but was modified to avoid making such an unjustified claim and to make the word sound better. The story goes that Carothers changed one letter at a time until DuPont's management was satisfied. But he was not involved in the nylon project during the last year of his life, and committed suicide before the name was coined. There is another story (repeated in James Burke's TV series Connections) that another one of the names considered was to be Duparooh for DUpont Pulls A Rabbit Out Of a Hat. Nylon was never trademarked. Another popular myth is that "Nylon" stands for "Now You Lousy Old Nippons". Yet another explanation is that it stands for "New York-London", the source of the chemists working on the materials sythesis, but there is no evidence that nylon was named after New York and London.

Answer 11

Nylon is an acronym which when split reads the following way -
NY = new york
LON = London.

it is derived from these two cities because nylon was the first man made fibre to be polymerised, and this polymerisation was done in the usa and uk in the cities New York and London, hence the name Ny+lon = nylon.