This American inventor was a master of chemistry and developed new products. Waldo Lonsbury Semon worked for B.F Goodrich the tire and rubber people and over his lifetime he received 116 patents for his ideas, inventions, and innovations.

 

He was born in Demopolis,Alabama on September 10, 1898, and passed away on May 26, 1999, in Hudson, Ohio.

 

Semon's main focus of invention was with polymers.

 

His is/was the inventor of what was called polyvinyl chloride, better known today as vynil. He received patent no. 1,929,453 in 1933 for the commercial vynil called Koroseal.

 

He was inducted in the Inventors Hall of Fame in 1995.