Hugh Karraker, a documentary filmmaker, environmentalist and plastics historian, died Aug. 17 at age 74. He was a great-grandson of Leo Baekeland, who invented Bakelite, the world's first synthetic ...

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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, ...

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Stamford’s Avon Theatre is hosting a free screening Saturday morning, March 28, of “All Things Bakelite: The Age of Plastic,” the story of the “Father of Modern Plastic,” Leo Hendrik Baekeland. The ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Oh, Polyoxybenzylmethylenglycolanhydride, how you changed the world. And, oh, Leo Baekeland, how we depend on what you created when you formulated the first synthetic ...