Leo Baekeland: I was trying to make something really hard, but then I thought I should make something really soft instead, that could be molded into different shapes. That was how I came up with the first plastic. I called it Bakelite.

I was trying to make something really hard, but then I thought I should make something really soft instead, that could be molded into different shapes. That was how I came up with the first plastic. I called it Bakelite.

-- Leo Baekeland


		Name: Leo Baekeland Type: Inventor Nationality: Belgian Birth: November 14, 1863 Death: February 23, 1944

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