What Did John Wesley Hyatt Do?

What Did John Wesley Hyatt Do? John Wesley Hyatt, (born November 28, 1837, Starkey, New York, U.S.—died May 10, 1920, Short Hills, New Jersey), American inventor and industrialist who discovered the process for making celluloid, the first practical artificial plastic. Did John Wesley Hyatt invent plastic? The Age of Plastics began in America. In 1869