All Things Bakelite: The Age of Plastic
The Life and Times of Leo Baekeland
- Release Date
- 2018-03-01
- Runtime
- 0h 59m
- Status
- Released
- Rating
- N/A
- Links
- IMDb
Overview
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.