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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 .
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
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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.
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Wyeth returned to the United States in the summer of 1889 and studied at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. [16] [17] He was awarded a first prize for his work, [7] [18] and graduated first in his class. [19] [b] In summer 1890, he enrolled as an art student at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France. He ...
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By 1825, Tudor was doing well with ice sales, but the difficulty of hand-cutting large blocks limited his company's growth. However, one supplier, Nathaniel Jarvis Wyeth, harnessed horses to a metal blade to cut ice. Wyeth's ice plow made mass production a reality and allowed Tudor to more than triple his production.