That the Parliament recognises that 25 July 2018 represented the 175th anniversary of the death of the renowned Scottish chemist and inventor, Charles Macintosh; notes that, in 1823, while trying to find uses for the waste products of gasworks, Macintosh discovered that coal-tar naphtha dissolved India rubber and that sandwiching this rubber preparation between two sheets of wool cloth produced a waterproof fabric, and thus Macintosh invented the waterproof; considers that, together with the chemist, George Hancock, Macintosh solved many of the problems involved in reliably producing waterproofed sheets and coats, and that the internationally-renowned Mackintosh garment first produced in 1824 was named after him; understands that, while Macintosh is best remembered today for his eponymously-titled coats, he was also a brilliant chemist with achievements in many different fields, including inventing a revolutionary bleaching powder in collaboration with Charles Tennant, devising a way of using carbon gases to convert malleable iron to steel, and creating hot-blast process to produce high-quality cast iron, and believes that Charles Macintosh’s contribution to the advancement of the chemical industry and to Scottish science as a whole should be celebrated for years to come.