Leo Hendrik Baekeland may be the most important inventor you've never heard of. Baekeland, who discovered the first synthetic plastic, is the subject of a new documentary, “All Things Bakelite,” ...

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The significant role of Britain in the discovery and development of the first plastics is often overlooked — overshadowed, as it is, by the dominant figure of Belgian Leo Baekeland, creator and ...

Leo Baekeland is the most important inventor you never heard of. That will change if cultural influencers can convey their enthusiasm for a new documentary, " All Things Bakelite: The Age of Plastic," ...

This week Philadelphia’s Franklin Institute presents one of its coveted gold medals to a man who is much less known to the public than are the changes his work has wrought in the many common things ...

When Leo Hendrik Baekeland invented Bakelite in 1907, he changed the world - ushering in the Age of Plastics and transforming the way people lived. The phenolic resin took off first as a superior, ...

The passage of time, especially that inhabited by humans, has often been named based on the materials we use during that time. The Stone, Bronze, and Iron Ages are, for instance, a three-age system ...

A clapboarded 1890s barn in Yonkers was the unlikely setting, in 1907, for a leap in polymer technology. The barn contained the home laboratory of Leo Baekeland, a Belgian-born inventor who ...

YONKERS There is one other invention that was discovered right in our backyard. "It was really the first inorganic plastic, sort of the forerunner to all the modern plastics which are made in ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The papers document Leo H. Baekeland, ...