An alternative to wood and metal, Bakelite took over kitchen drawers in the early 20th century, as manufacturers applied the hard, colorful plastic to the handles of beaters, dough blenders, ...
Bakelite is the seminal precursor of modern-day plastics, developed in the early 1900s by a Belgian chemist named Leo Baekeland. It includes natural wood flour and heat-set phenol formaldehyde resin, ...
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