<a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_H._Carothers" id="mwjg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Wallace H. Carothers">Wallace H. Carothers</a> receives a United States <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent" id="mwjw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Patent">patent</a> for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nylon" id="mwkA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Nylon">nylon</a>.<sup about="#mwt46" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-7"}}' id="cite_ref-7" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./February_16#cite_note-7" id="mwkQ" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 7;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwkg">[7]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-7"><cite about="#mwt43" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFNorris_McWhirterMoira_F._Stowe1980">Norris McWhirter; Moira F. Stowe (June 1980). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=aQ4TAQAAMAAJ" id="mwBkg" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwBkk">The Guinness book of answers: a handbook of general knowledge</i></a>. Guinness Superlatives. p.<span id="mwBko" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>125. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwBks" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwBkw" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/978-0-85112-202-1" id="mwBk0" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-85112-202-1"><bdi id="mwBk4">978-0-85112-202-1</bdi></a>. <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160623223230/https://books.google.com/books?id=aQ4TAQAAMAAJ" id="mwBk8" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">Archived</a> from the original on 2016-06-23<span class="reference-accessdate" id="mwBlA">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" id="mwBlE">2020-02-17</span></span>.</cite><span about="#mwt43" class="Z3988" id="mwBlI" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=The+Guinness+book+of+answers%3A+a+handbook+of+general+knowledge&amp;rft.pages=125&amp;rft.pub=Guinness+Superlatives&amp;rft.date=1980-06&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-85112-202-1&amp;rft.au=Norris+McWhirter&amp;rft.au=Moira+F.+Stowe&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DaQ4TAQAAMAAJ&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFebruary+16"></span></span>