WICHITA – Dr Joseph C. Shivers, the DuPont chemist who invented Lycra fibre in 1958, is being posthumously inducted into the US National Inventors Hall of Fame at a gala ceremony in Washington DC tonight (May 3rd).
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WICHITA – Dr Joseph C. Shivers, the DuPont chemist who invented Lycra fibre in 1958, is being posthumously inducted into the US National Inventors Hall of Fame at a gala ceremony in Washington DC tonight (May 3rd).

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