All Things Bakelite: The Age of Plastic
- Movies
- 2018-03-01
- EN
- Released
- 0h 59m
- Documentary
Tagline
The Life and Times of Leo Baekeland
Storyline
In 1907, Belgian-born American chemist Leo Hendrik Baekeland made one of the most transformative discoveries of the 20th century: Bakelite. It was the first wholly synthetic plastic and ushered in an explosion of new man-made materials that marked the beginnings of our modern industrial age.
