Mackintosh

Mackintosh, (also Macintosh),is a waterproof overcoat, which appeared on the market towards the middle of the nineteenth century. It took its name from Charles Mackintosh (1766-1843), a Scottish chemist, who invented a waterproofing method that he patented in 1823, in which two layers of woolen fiber are joined together by rubber dissolved in coal-tar naphtha. In 1830 he founded Macintosh & Co with Thomas Hancock, previously one of his competitors. In 1851 Joseph Mandleburg found a solution to the smell of rubber in waterproofed textiles, producing the first odorless overcoat. Although waterproof Macs were originally full-length, voluminous garments, during the course of the twentieth century they began to reflect the influence of changing fashions and contemporary styles.

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