Plastic, admitted Leo Hendrik Baekeland's great-grandson, isn't exactly the family's choice of conversation around the dinner table. In fact, Baekeland was rather low-key about his role in developing ...

AROUND the turn of the 20th century, Leo Henricus Arthur Baekeland, a Belgian-born inventor, moved into a three-story turreted house known as Snug Rock in what was then the Harmony Park section of ...

Plastics have come a long way in the 100 years since the first moudable synthetic was invented. But Sophie Campbell discovers that the wonder stuff that started it all is far from forgotten. BySophie ...

A clapboarded 1890s barn in Yonkers was the unlikely setting, in 1907, for a leap in polymer technology. The barn contained the home laboratory of Leo Baekeland, a Belgian-born inventor who ...

Groot is an avid collector of Bakelite plastic products, with some 4,000 items in his collection. Karraker is the great-grandson of the inventor of Bakelite, Leo Hendrik Baekeland. They met at a ...

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, ...

In 1909 a Belgian chemist called Leo Baekeland patented a new malleable material called poly-oxy-benzyl-methyl-englycol-anhydride. Thankfully we know it today as Bakelite and it's often said to be the ...

ON a wooden shelf in the Bakelite Museum – “world’s greatest collection of vintage plastics” – a book called Dull Men of Great Britain is proudly opened at the entry for Mr Patrick Cook. He is Baron ...

In all the hoopla about the opening of the Science Museum's Plasticity show, coinciding with the centenary of the invention of Bakelite, everyone seems to have failed to notice that Britain has its ...