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Nathaniel C. Wyeth (October 24, 1911 – July 4, 1990) was an American mechanical engineer and inventor. He is best known for creating a variant of polyethylene terephthalate that could withstand the pressure of carbonated liquids .
Wyeth was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Jacob and Elizabeth (Jarvis) [1] Wyeth. He married Elizabeth Jarvis Stone on January 29, 1824. He began his working career in the 1820s by acting as foreman for a company that harvested ice from Fresh Pond in Cambridge, and thus helping Boston's "Ice King" Frederic Tudor to establish New England's ice trade with the Caribbean, Europe, and India.
Fort William (Oregon) Fort William was a fur trading outpost built in 1834 by the American Nathaniel Jarvis Wyeth, a Boston merchant, backed by American investors.It was located on the Columbia River on Wappatoo Island near the future Portland, Oregon.
Newell Convers Wyeth (October 22, 1882 – October 19, 1945), known as N. C. Wyeth, was an American painter and illustrator. He was a student of Howard Pyle and became one of America's most well-known illustrators. [ 1 ]
The party was called the Wyeth-Lee Party as Lee had contracted with Nathaniel Jarvis Wyeth, who was going on his second trading expedition, to accompany him. [3] The party set out on April 28, 1834, traveling independently from the American Fur Company's caravan headed for the same destination. [4]
Nathaniel Wyeth (inventor) (1911–1990), inventor of the recyclable PET plastic bottle Nathaniel Jarvis Wyeth (1802–1856), developer of the US ice industry Topics referred to by the same term
Jerome "Jerry" Hal Lemelson (July 18, 1923 – October 1, 1997) was an American engineer, inventor, and patent holder. Several of his inventions relate to warehouses, industrial robots, cordless telephones, fax machines, videocassette recorders, camcorders, and the magnetic tape drive. [1]
Nathan Corwith Wyeth (April 20, 1870 – August 30, 1963) was an American architect. ... Dr. Jacob Wyeth, accompanied his brother Nathaniel Jarvis Wyeth, ...