Leo Baekeland (1863-1944),Belgian chemist and inventor of Bakelite. Baekeland was an academic chemist in his native Belgium. In 1889 he visited the USA,and decided to settle there. He manufactured a photographic paper called 'Velox',but sold out to Kodak after six years. He then studied the reaction of phenol and methanal which,under the right conditions,produces a dark brown thermosetting resin. He mixed this with a filler,and in 1909 introduced it as Bakelite,the first widely-used synthetic plastic. For many years,Bakelite was the material of choice in electrical appliances | |
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