in 1907 leo baekeland invented synthetic plastic...what were the uses for plastic in THAT time period, not today.any help would be appreciated, its a pain in the *** to find this :(helpand please even if you dont feel like typing out answers, put down a link i could use to help me out. and also how is plastic made, like the properties and such (links included here as well)
Plastic is an adjective meaning able to be molded. Clay can be considered to be a plastic material. This means that plastics have been around for many centuries. Check out BASF's website. This will give you some idea as to what is happening today.
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Plastics existed before Bakelite, but Bakelite was the first completely synthetic material. It was first used for electrical insulators, later for billiard balls and the casings for the old big black telephones that people used to use. Many uses were subsequently found for it, replacing steel and wood for various manufactured items, from combs, pens, dishes and toys, to artillery casings and propellers. Today there are thousands of different plastics made in a great variety of ways. Most plastics are hydrocarbons, and can be made from just about any carbon-rich substance. Coal tar, petroleum and natural gas are all commonly used as feedstock for plastic making. An excellent book on the subject is Plastic, the making of the Synthetic Century by Stephen Fenichell, published by Harper Collins
