Do You Know What is a Mackintosh?

Do you know what a mackintosh is? Of course, you do. But do you know that the word “mackintosh” is a surname?

In 1823, in Scotland lived a man whose name was Charles Mackintosh.

It often rained in Great Britain, and Charles Mackintosh got wet quite often.

One day he rubberized his coat, and it became waterproof. Many of his friends liked his coat and asked him to rubberize their coats too. Soon many people began to rubberize their coats and they called those coats “mackintoshes”.