Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Leo Baekeland
Standard Name: Baekeland, Leo
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5 February 1909: In Belgium a chemist named Leo Baekeland...
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5 February 1909
In Belgium a chemist named Leo Baekeland
announced his invention of Bakelite, the first synthetic plastic. Its commercial production began soon afterwards.