The Bakelite Breakthrough: How plastics came of age
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A História de Leo Baekeland.
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Leo Baekeland
Leo Henricus Arthur Baekeland FRSE(Hon) was a Belgian-American chemist. He is best known for the inventions of Velox photographic paper in 1893 and Bakelite in 1907. He has been called "The Father of the Plastics Industry" for his invention of Bakelite, an inexpensive, nonflammable and versatile plastic, which marked the beginning of the modern plastics industry.