Jacques Brandenberger was a Swiss textile chemist. In 1908, after experimenting with different ways of treating cloth by applying a cellulose solution in order to make it impervious to dirt, discovered that a thin transparent film could be peeled off the top of the cloth. By 1911, he had invented one of the first machines for large-scale production of the material, which he named cellophane.

Brandenberger built an industrial enterprise to manufacture the transparent wrap in Paris. With access to mass quantities, he created different uses for cellophane, including as a wrap for products and as a thin, flexible film over the eyepieces of gas masks. He was granted patents for his machinery and basic process in 1917, while working at La Cellophane Société Anonyme.In 1923, La Cellophane sold the rights to the process to make and sell cellophane in North and Central America to the DuPont Cellophane Company.The first sheet of DuPont Cellophane came off a casting machine in Buffalo, New York in 1924. In 1927 a new moistureproof Cellophane was developed at DuPont by Dr. Hale church and associates. This new variation allwoed hte material to be sued for many new purposes, especially for food and tobacco wrapping.

Brandenberger’s cellophane remains common in packaging. Brandenberger was awarded the Franklin Institute's Elliott Cresson Medal in 1937.

DuBois, J. Harry. Plastics History U.S.A. (Boston: Cahners,1972), 280-281.

chemical scientist by a number of inventions, among these the most outstanding, the viscose film which became known under the name "cellophane". This invention was brought to commercial fruition by him and utilised in his company La Cellophane S.A. in France.