John Wesley Hyatt Award exhibition display

2023-01-10T15:36:14-05:00

General view of a 1947 display board for the John Wesley Hyatt Award, presented annually by the Society of Plastics Engineers for outstanding achievement in the plastics industry. The board features profiles of several previous medalists and is accompanied by product samples related to their work. The award is named for the printer John Wesley Hyatt (1837−1920), who invented celluloid in 1869 as an alternative to the ivory used to produce billiard balls.