GORE-TEX was discovered by American W.L.GORE Company in the experiment of using PTFE. When it is in the film state, there are as many as 9 billion pores per square inch. These pores are one twentieth the size of water droplets, but 700 times larger than water vapor molecules. In addition, it is soft and tough, and it is a top waterproof and breathable fabric, which is used to make outdoor functional coats, military uniforms, boots and so on.

Gore is the name of the inventor, that is, Bill Gore, one of the co-founders of Gore Company.

TEX means fabric.

The inventor of Germany's SYMPA-TEX is called SYMPA, in the same way.

1969 bob gore invented GORE-TEX? Expanded polytetrafluoroethylene (ePTFE).