Today, we all carry a smartphone in our purse or pocket with more computing power than an Apollo spacecraft. However, our lines of communication weren't always so technologically advanced. In the ...
All Things Bakelite: The Age of Plastic is a 56-minute film about Bakelite, the first totally synthetic plastic, invented in 1907 by Leo Baekeland. Prior to inventing this world-changing material, ...
It was 1869, and something needed to be done. Albany inventor John Wesley Hyatt answered the call, molding together camphor, nitrocellulose, and alcohol under extreme pressure. His concoction, called ...
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