Hilaire de Chardonnet (born Louis-Marie Hilaire Bernigaud de Chardonnet) (
May 1 1839 -
March 11 1924) was a
French engineer and industrialist from
Besançon, inventor of artificial
silk.
See also
Hilaire de Chardonnet was the first on too patent the artifical silk but, Georges Audemars was the first one to invent rayon in 1855