A little late for the #shittycamerachallenge but I just picked this thing up for $5. The roll came from a frozen stash of 35mm and 120 that's been fine shooting at box speed. Probably the only roll of 127 I'll ever shoot.

#filmphotography #expiredfilm #believeinfilm #kodakbrownie #bakelite

‘Bakelite - the material of a thousand uses’
Bakelite Corporation
*Electronics* magazine, October 1937
#electronics #plastics #industrialdesign #plastics #moldedphenolics #Bakelite #radios

Pierre Cardin Travel game 1970s
#bakelite
#vinageluxuryset
#1970pierrecardin
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In #SEPTEMBER 1943
‘What's he got that you didn't have?’
Union Carbide. September 1943
#WW2 #chemicalsindustry #materials #plastics #Bakelite #vinylite

*The Saturday Evening Post*, January 27, 1923
#plastics #Bakelite #phenolics #jewelry #battleships

‘For Your Daughter’s Jewelry and the Ponderous Dreadnought. The Material of a Thousand Uses.’
Bakelite Corporation.
#plastics #Bakelite #phenolics #jewelry #battleships

While cast #Bakelite, colored or transparent, as here, and shaped by tools, found only limited use; molded Bakelite, whose filling materials imposed a brown to black color, was crucial to the development of electrical systems & devices of all sorts in homes, vehicles & factories.

#OTD in 1924
'Dr. Leo H. Baekeland - “It will not burn. It will not melt.”'
Cover of *Time*, September 22, 1924
Commemorating his vitally important invention of the first entirely synthetic material, the phenolic plastic he christened #Bakelite
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#plastics #LeoBaekeland

‘Bristle-setting Cements for Brushes - Cast Resinoid Cutlery Handles - Resinoid Beads for Abrasive Wheels - Flexible Resinoids for Waterproof Fabrics’
#plastics #Bakelite #resins

Bakelite Corporation. September 1938.
#graphicdesign #plastics #Bakelite #resins