The following is an encore presentation of Everything Everywhere Daily.

At the 1862 London International Exhibition,

an inventor by the name of Andrew Parks introduced a new product based on cellulose that he called Park scene.

Little did he know that this material which could be made elastic when heated and molded into almost any shape imaginable would become the basis for an enormous

percentage of all the materials and common use in the 21st century.

Learn more about plastics, how they were invented and how they're used in the modern world on this episode of

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