Today’s Google Doodle celebrates a Scottish chemist and his waterproof raincoat

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.
Macintosh was a chemist born 250 years ago today in Glasgow, Scotland, where it rains, sleets, or snows an average of 201 days per year. So, it’s perhaps unsurprising that he figured out a way to rubberize clothes, making them impervious to wind and rain.Carson, Pirie, Scott & Co. catal