All Things Bakelite: The Age of Plastic is a 56-minute film about Bakelite, the first totally synthetic plastic, invented in 1907 by Leo Baekeland. Prior to inventing this world-changing material, ...
Series foreword / Joyce Bedi, Arthur Daemmrich, and Arthur Molella -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Social mobility through education -- 3. Crossing boundaries : from European academia to ...
It was 1869, and something needed to be done. Albany inventor John Wesley Hyatt answered the call, molding together camphor, nitrocellulose, and alcohol under extreme pressure. His concoction, called ...