It is exceptionally strong even in thin sections. Post-war uses will include employment in electric motor bearings, carburetor diaphragms, insulated wire, braided machinery packing, coil springs, tubing rods, and perhaps window screens. Nylon will be used for brushes, surgical sutures and heavy-duty rope even after other materials are available. The matinee idol with the receding hairline can plan on a nylon wig after the war. The movie actress whose own locks won't hold the right kind of wave will wear a soft, sleek coiffure of nylon.
Experiments show that the strands can be finished and dyed to look and feel perfectly natural.
Artificial eyelashes will be made to match. The Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. All rights reserved.