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Name: Waldo L. Semon
Birth Date: 1898
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: chemical engineer

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In 1912, the European scientist Klattes had discovered that hydrochloric acid combined with acetylene gives vinyl chloride. Another European, Ostromislenski, in the same year patented the production of a rubber-like material from vinyl chloride....


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Waldo Lonsbury Semon (September 10,1898 – May 26,1999) was a renowned American inventor born in Demopolis, Alabama.[1] Semon put his name into the history books for inventing vinyl, the world's second most used plastic. He found the formula for...


 

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