All Things Bakelite: The Age of Plastic

Name: All Things Bakelite: The Age of Plastic
Director: John E. Maher
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2018-03-01
Duration: 3540000 s
Cast: Adam Behr, Shaun Branigan, Jorge Caicedo

Directed by John E. Maher

Not Rated

2018 59m[Documentary](/on-demand/category/documentary)

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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.