Hilaire de Chardonnet
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Hilaire de Chardonnet
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| Born | 1 May 1839 Besançon, France |
| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Paris, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Title | Count |
Louis-Marie Hilaire Bernigaud de Grange, Count (Comte) de Chardonnet (1 May 1839 – 11 March 1924) was a French engineer and industrialist from Besançon, inventor of artificial silk.
In the late 1870s, Chardonnet was working with Louis Pasteur on a remedy to the epidemic that was destroying French silk worms. Failure to clean up a spill in the darkroom resulted in Chardonnet's discovery of nitrocellulose as a potential replacement for real silk. Realizing the value of such a discovery, Chardonnet began to develop his new product.[1]
He called his new invention "Chardonnet silk" and displayed it in the Paris Exhibition of 1889.[2] Unfortunately, Chardonnet's material was extremely flammable, and was subsequently replaced with other, more stable materials.
He was the first one to patent the artificial silk but Georges Audemars invented a variety called Rayon in 1855.
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