I was trying to make something really hard, but then I thought I should make something really soft instead, that could be molded into different shapes. That was how I came up with the first plastic. I called it Bakelite.
I was trying to make something really hard, but then I thought I should make something really soft instead, that could be molded into different shape… - Leo Baekeland
I was trying to make something really hard, but then I thought I should make something really soft instead, that could be molded into different shape…
- Leo Baekeland
How few people will realize how much detail had to be gone into before Bakelite was a commercial success. - Leo Baekeland
How few people will realize how much detail had to be gone into before Bakelite was a commercial success.
In 1893 I founded a chemical company which I ran until 1899. - Leo Baekeland
In 1893 I founded a chemical company which I ran until 1899.
I also served on many government committees. - Leo Baekeland
I also served on many government committees.
If I had my life to live over again I would not devote it to develop new industrial processes: I would try to add my humble efforts to use Science to… - Leo Baekeland
If I had my life to live over again I would not devote it to develop new industrial processes: I would try to add my humble efforts to use Science to…
Knowledge is like a knife. In the hands of a well-balanced adult it is an instrument for good of inestimable value; but in the hands of a child, an i… - Leo Baekeland
Knowledge is like a knife. In the hands of a well-balanced adult it is an instrument for good of inestimable value; but in the hands of a child, an i…
Well, it was kind of an accident, because plastic is not what I meant to invent. I had just sold photograph paper to Eastman Kodak for 1 million doll… - Leo Baekeland
Well, it was kind of an accident, because plastic is not what I meant to invent. I had just sold photograph paper to Eastman Kodak for 1 million doll…
Then I was president of the Bakelite Corporation from 1910 to 1930 - Leo Baekeland
Then I was president of the Bakelite Corporation from 1910 to 1930
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