Today’s Google Doodle celebrates the man whose invention keeps us dry all winter: Charles Macintosh (1766–1843), inventor of the waterproof raincoat — commonly known as a mackintosh ...

The Scottish chemist Charles Mackintosh is credited to have designed the so-called “India-rubber cloth,” consisting ... even as late as 1900 almost any raincoat was referred to as a mackintosh.

The rainy season hit a bit late this year, so if there’s one item that we’ve all been (unfortunately) reaching for, it’s the Mackintosh rain jacket.

The Scottish chemist found a way to use rubber — harvested from the milk of rubber trees — to waterproof cotton fabrics, and the rainproof coat we know simply as a “Mac” was born. Today, Mackintosh ...

That was resolved with the invention of vulcanized rubber in 1839 by Charles Goodyear, and the Mackintosh continues as an icon of rainwear to date. From WWI’s Trenches To The High Street ...

Two former Mackintosh employees, Gary Bott and Daniel Dunko, are giving the forgotten inventor his due with Hancock, their new line of raincoats and accessories.

This week sees the opening of the first ever Mackintosh store in London’s exclusive Mayfair, nearly 200 years after the classic British Mac was invented. Loved by everyone from Audrey Hepburn to ...

It wasn't until several decades later, when Thomas Hancock devised a process called vulcanisation (whereby rubber could be bonded with fabric), that the modern concept of the Mackintosh coat was born.

Soon afterwards he began to manufacture raincoats, and the "mackintosh" quickly became a fashionable and very useful garment. The original Macintosh man died at the age of 77, on July 25th, 1843 ...

With heavy rain expected to blight parts of the UK over the New Year weekend, now seems like an ideal time celebrate the man who invented the mackintosh raincoat. Charles Macintosh, born in ...