Jacques E. Brandenberger

Jacques Edwin Brandenberger (October 19, 1872 – July 13, 1954) was a Swiss chemist and textile engineer who in 1908 invented cellophane. He was awarded the Franklin Institute's Elliott Cresson Medal in 1937.

External links

• Dr. J. E. Brandenberger Foundation
• Biography at National Inventors Hall of Fame
• U.S. Patent 1,266,766 Composite cellulose film, May 21, 1918

Jacques E. Brandenberger was born in Zurich on October 19th 1872. Graduating from the University of Bern in 1895, Brandenburger invented cellophane in 1908. Made from wood cellulose, cellophane was 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.