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> From: Rudy R Christian
> Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 9:25 AM

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> That's how they fixed my grandpa after he was shot in the gut 
> with a Gatling gun in WW1. Only problem he had was it was 
> metal and he rusted out. They ended up fixing him by putting 
> in a nylon screen, unwaxed of course.

Musta been some of that good old-time double-dipped galvanized screen to have lasted until the invention of nylon by DuPont chemist Wallace Carothers, announced in 1938.

Interesting factoid:

"The first year on the market, DuPont sold 64 million pairs of stockings. That same year, nylon appeared in the movie, The Wizard of Oz, where it was used to create the tornado that carried Dorothy to the Emerald City." <http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blpantyhose.htm>

Dan

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Raleigh Historic           be thinking, and the thinker
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