Delrin Sample
date: label: Date made
content: late 1950s
label: Date made
content: 1955-1960
label: Date made
content: probably late 1950s
notes: label: Description
content: Polyoxymethylene was discovered by Hermann Staudinger, a German chemist who would later receive a Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Robert N. MacDonald, a chemist working for DuPont, synthesized this thermoplastic in 1952, and DuPont filed for patent protection. In 1960, after Stephen Dal Nogare invented a heat-stable (and thus useful) version of the material, DuPont opened a plant to produce the resin, which it termed named Delrin, at Parkersburg, West Virginia.
label: Description
content: “Strong New Plastic Challenges Metals,” Science News-Letter 76 (1959): 130.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of R. N. MacDonald
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1985.0281.01
label: catalog number
content: 1985.0281.01
label: accession number
content: 1985.0281
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Sample, Plastic, Delrin
label: Object Name
content: Delrin Sample
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 38 mm x 38 mm; 1 1/2 in x 1 1/2 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 3/4 in x 1 7/16 in; 4.445 cm x 3.65125 cm