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.

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 ...

There’s an old Scottish saying, as true today as it was nearly 200 years ago: Always wear a rubber. (It sounds better in a heavy brogue.) We are referring, of course, to the Mackintosh, the ...

Why the Mackintosh Is the Best Rain Jacket You Can Wear Right Now We love a good trench, but this season, mac jackets are in—and you'll want to save these sleek designs for a rainy day.

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.

1766: Charles Macintosh, who has no connection whatsoever to the computer of the same name, is born in Glasgow, Scotland. He will be remembered in tech annals as the inventor of rubberized ...

Scotland has turned out endless inventors of great genius in the past few hundred years, and Charles Macintosh — the man who brought waterproof clothing to the world — was as successful as any of them ...