Pierre Cardin Travel game 1970s
#bakelite
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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