Accidents May Happen* by Charlotte Jones

Author:Charlotte Jones [Jones, Charlotte]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Retail, Ages 8+
ISBN: 9780307554123
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2011-09-01T07:00:00+00:00

CELLOPHANE

You see a lot of cellophane at the grocery store. That clear stuff covering the raw hamburger is a type of cellophane. You also seal your friend’s birthday gift with cellophane tape.

Jacques Brandenberger, a Swiss chemist, was not trying to make something to cover your pork chops in 1908. He worked in a French textile firm and was looking for a way to make a stainproof tablecloth. He tried coating the cloth with a thin sheet of viscose film. No one would buy the tablecloths, but Brandenberger realized that the sheet of film held possibilities.

It took him ten years to develop a machine that would produce what he named cellophane. He patented the production process and called the company La Cellophane. The name came from combining “cello,” from cellulose, with “phane,” from the French word diaphane, which means transparent.

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