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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, ...

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Bakelite is the seminal precursor of modern-day plastics, developed in the early 1900s by a Belgian chemist named Leo Baekeland. It includes natural wood flour and heat-set phenol formaldehyde resin, ...

IT IS a busy evening in New York and a man is asking people on the street at random if they are familiar with Bakelite. None of them knows what it is, but most think it is related to food. We meet ...

A new class of Bakelite collectors is emerging, and it’s hardly the swap-meet set. The spoils: a bangle or three with inlaid geometrics, perhaps a marbled ring with bursts of bezel-set gemstones. That ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover upmarket jewelry, timepieces & ethical, sustainable jewelry. One-of-a-kind repurposed Bakelite bangles by Mark Davis are ...

Baekeland was hardly alone in his quest for a better varnish. The shellac issue was one of the hot topics of chemical research at the turn of the century. The sole source of shellac was the excretions ...