We meet them in a documentary, where the truth is revealed: without Bakelite, the first wholly synthetic plastic, the world would have been very different. John Maher’s All Things Bakelite ...

“Bakelite in Yonkers: Pioneering the Age of Plastics” at the Hudson River Museum here, revisits that time and the era of industrial design that followed, flourishing throughout the 20th centur ...

Bakelite, an iconic plastics material, is included in a $425 million deal between thermoset resins maker Hexion Inc. and two financial firms. Columbus, Ohio-based Hexion is selling its phenolic ...

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 ...

Perhaps one of the clearest indications of the Anthropocene may be the presence of plastic. Starting with the commercialization of Bakelite in 1907 by Leo Baekeland, plastics have taken the world ...

Michele Norris talks with Dr. Jeffery Meikle, a historian of American plastic, about how Baekeland's invention affected the world's thinking. Plastic Turns 100: Bakelite's Birthday | KERA News ...