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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 .
The use of PET for soda bottles was first patented by the American mechanical engineer and inventor Nathaniel Wyeth in 1973, and soda companies soon started using it to package their drinks. [6] Over the past 20 years or so, PET bottles have become the most common material to package beverages, replacing glass and metal.
PepsiCo introduced the first two-liter sized soft drink bottle in 1970. [1] Motivated by market research conducted by new marketing vice president John Sculley (who would later be known for heading Apple Inc. from 1983 to 1993), [2] the bottle and the method of its production were designed by a team led by Nathaniel Wyeth of DuPont, who received the patent in 1973. [3]
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.
In 1973, DuPont engineer Nathaniel Wyeth patented Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles, the first plastic bottle to withstand the pressure of carbonated liquids. [14] Today, PET plastic has replaced glass as the preferred material for single-serving bottled water containers due to its light weight and resistance to breaking. [15] [16] [17]
Nathaniel became an engineer for DuPont and worked on the team that invented the plastic soda bottle. Henriette and Ann married two of Wyeth's protégés, Peter Hurd and John W. McCoy. Wyeth is the grandfather of painters Jamie Wyeth and Michael Hurd, and the musician Howard Wyeth. [17]
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
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.