Jacques edwin brandenberger biography of donald
Jenny Compton has recently become a dedicated fan of cellophane. A waitress at the popular Aram's Cafe in downtown Petaluma, she's been intimately familiar with the stuff for years, as plastic wrap clearly ranks among the most commonplace item in any restaurant kitchen. Throughout the day, little parades of perishable food ingredients are endlessly wrapped and unwrapped and rewrapped again, each new wrapping underscored by the sharp, sibilant snap-and-hiss of folding, crinkling, overlapping cellophane, snapping cellophane, tearing cellophane, occasional big wads of cellophane lazily unbunching itself on the counter or in the trashcan with the sweetly sizzling sound of a far-off campfire. It's cellophane city in there, and after so many years engaged up to her elbows in various food-service activities, one can assume that Compton has spent dozens, maybe hundreds, of hours playing with the stuff.
"It's probably true," she grins. "I've got my hands on cellophane all day long."
Still, Compton admits that she's never really thought about cellophane all that much--until two weeks ago, when she and her fellow employees were enrolled in a daylong food-safety class. The class, she says, was all about "washing your hands and not touching stuff"--sensible lessons, to be sure--but during that eight-hour training there was also plenty to learn about the amazing, unsung, transparent, pleasantly-filmy-yet-largely-taken-for-granted plastic product that's been unobtrusively playing a part in humanity's existence for almost 100 years.
"If it weren't for cellophane," Compton says, "there would be much more cross-contamination. That's my new big word: 'cross-contamination.' Germs just jump from everybody, all the time. There are a lot of germs out there. Cellophane stops the germs. Cellophane," she pronounces firmly, "is good."
While certainly good, cellophane's creation, like vulcanized rubber and the potato chip, was ultimately an accident.
According to histori AKA Jacques Edwin Brandenberger Born:19-Oct-1872 Gender: Male Nationality: Switzerland Jacques E. Brandenberger invented cellophane in 1908, made from wood cellulose and originally intended as a coating to make cloth more resistant to staining. After several years of further research and, refinements, and construction of a machine to make the thin, transparent film, he began production of cellophane in 1920, marketing it for industrial purposes, including eye shields for gas masks. He sold the US rights to DuPont in 1923. Improvements made in the DuPont labs made cellophane moistureproof in 1927. Daughter: Irma Marthe Brandenberger (d. 28-Jul-1986) University: PhD Chemistry, University of Berne (1895) National Inventors Hall of Fame 2006 Do you know something we don't? Copyright ©2019 Soylent Communications .List of National Inventors Hall of Fame inductees
Year Inductee Birth year Notable for NIHF 1973 Thomas Edison 1847 Electric lighting, motion pictures, phonograph 1974 Alexander Graham Bell 1847 Telephone 1974 Eli Whitney 1765 Cotton gin 1974 Walter Brattain 1902 Transistor 1974 William Shockley 1910 Transistor 1974 John Bardeen* 1908 Transistor 1975 Nikola Tesla 1856 Induction motor 1975 Orville Wright 1871 Airplane 1975 Samuel Morse 1791 Telegraph 1975 Wilbur Wright 1867 Airplane 1975 William D. Coolidge 1873 X-ray tube 1975 Guglielmo Marconi* 1874 Radio 1976 Charles Martin Hall 1863 Aluminum production process 1976 Charles Goodyear 1800 Vulcanization of rubber 1976 Cyrus McCormick 1809 Mechanical reaper 1976 Enrico Fermi 1901 Nuclear fission 1976 Rudolf Diesel 1858 Internal-combustion engine 1976 Charles Hard Townes* 1915 Laser 1977 Charles Steinmetz 1865 Alternating current 1977 Edwin H. Land 1909 Polaroid 1977 George Eastman 1854 Photography 1977 Lee De Forest* 1873 Audion amplifier tube 1977 Vladimir K. Zworykin* 1888 Cathode-ray tube 1978 Carl Djerassi 1923 Oral contraceptives 1978 Leo Baekeland 1863 Bakelite 1978 Louis Pasteur 1822 Pasteurization 1978 Luis Walter Alvarez 1911 Radar, liquid hydrogen bubble chamber 1979 Charles J. Plank 1915 Catalytic cracking 1979 Ed
Birthplace:Zurich, Switzerland
Died:13-Jul-1954
Location of death:Zurich, Switzerland
Cause of death: unspecified
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation:Chemist
Executive summary: Cellophane
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