The newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung was founded in 1780 and was edited by the Swiss painter and poet Salomon Gessner. It was renamed to its current name in 1821.
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Jacques Edwin Brandenberger was a Swiss chemist and textile engineer who in 1908 invented cellophane. Jacques saw a wine spill on a restaurant tablecloth and was inspired to create a cloth that would repel liquids instead of absorbing them. He created a film using cellulose that was transparent as well as water resistant. He sold the US rights to DuPont in 1923.
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