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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.
Arrangements were made with Nathaniel Wyeth for the small missionary group to travel with his party. In early 1834 the combined group departed from Independence, Missouri . [ 7 ] Lee didn't refrain from judging and comparing the various native cultures along the Columbia River basin while en route west.
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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
Trodden Weed is a 1951 painting by the American artist Andrew Wyeth. It is a self-portrait, displaying the painter from his knees down, dressed in a pair of old, high leather boots. The boots had belonged to N. C. Wyeth's teacher Howard Pyle. [1] Andrew Wyeth had received the boots as a Christmas gift from his wife in 1950.