History of carbon fiber

Carbon fiber is widely believed to have first been produced by Thomas Edison around 1879. He is thought to have made the fibers through a process of repeatedly heating cotton, he also took out a patent for making carbon fibers to use as filaments in his electric lamps.

It was not until the 1960s that carbon fiber was first commercially produced, mainly for use in the aerospace industry. Since then the use of carbon fiber has become more and more wide-spread until today when carbon fiber is used in everything from jewelry to high performance car brakes and suspension pieces.