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: 59 min
Rating: 0

Directed by John E. Maher

Documentary

20180h 59m

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.