Leo Baekeland, The Father of Plastics

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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History, Society & Culture

4.2 • 24.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2015

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Dr. Leo Baekeland, the inventor of the first synthetic plastic, was a wealthy man at a young age thanks to his innovation in photograph developing. But it was his work with phenol and formaldehyde that would help usher in the age of plastics.

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0:30.7	Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class from HowStuffWorks.com.
0:41.7	Hello and welcome to the podcast. I'm Holly Fry, and I'm Tracy, that you will soon.
0:45.7	So Tracy, you saw the graduate, I'm sure.
0:48.7	Yep.
0:49.7	You probably remember the scene that lots of people remember
0:53.7	because it's kind of a famous one liner.
0:55.7	We're a family friend, gives Dustin Hoffman's character Ben,
0:59.7	who is the person who's just graduated.
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