How Modern Textiles Came To Be | The History of Ordinary Things
In 1664 English naturalist, Robert Hooke, predicted a fiber "if not fully as good, nay better" than the silk fiber produced by the silkworm. Nearly 200 years later in 1855, a Swiss…
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