Robert W. Gore's creations led to advancements in performance fabrics, medical devices and space exploration.
Robert W. Gore, the creator of Gore-Tex technology and other scientific discoveries that led to advancements in performance fabrics, medical devices and space exploration, died Thursday at age 83.Gore, the son of the founders of W.L. Gore & Associates, served on the company’s board for 57 years, including 30 years as chairman. He was most recently chairman emeritus. He also served as president of the company from 1976 until 2000. By 2003, the company had become a $1.
Shoppers’ and designers’ appreciation for lightweight, breathable Gore-Tex items can be seen today on many pedestrians crisscrossing cities streets. While designers like Bill Blass and Cathy Hardwick were early adopters of using performance fabrics for sportswear purposes, more recently Gore-Tex items have been designed by Off-White’s Virgil Abloh, Prada and others.
Even in the late Seventies, the ability to make a fabric lightweight and breathable was novel. Gore-Tex, a laminate with nine million pores per square inch, fit that bill. The pores were designed to be too minuscule to allow water droplets to penetrate, but they were meant to be large enough to allow water vapor to pass through. By the late Seventies, Gore was buying a variety of fabrics from various converters and adding the Gore-Tex laminate in either a two-layer or three-layer construction.
The family’s togetherness was stronger than most, considering that they built the house that they would live in in Newark, Del. An athlete, trombone player and member of student government, Bob Gore’s teenage years were fairly routine.
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