All Things Bakelite: The Age of Plastic

All Things Bakelite: The Age of Plastic

The Life and Times of Leo Baekeland

2018 en 59 minutes

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In 1907, Belgian-born American chemist Leo Hendrik Baekeland made one of the most transformative discoveries of the 20th century: Bakelite. It was the first wholly synthetic plastic and ushered in an explosion of new man-made materials that marked the beginnings of our modern industrial age.

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