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Leo Hendrick Baekeland and the Invention of Bakelite (1993)

https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/education/whatischemistry/landmarks/bakelite.html

by jpelecanos • 9 years ago

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kwhitefoot• 9 years ago

It's interesting that Baekeland's notebook uses Celsius instead of Fahrenheit yet modern American usage even in some engineering contexts uses Fahrenheit. See, for example, https://www.metabunk.org/attachments/174413923-28247782-carb... where temperatures are given in Fahrenheit with Celsius in brackets afterward.

pierot• 9 years ago

He was from Belgium, so the use of Celcius is very logical.

overlordalex• 9 years ago

What I find fascinating is people on youtube who do actual chemistry, including making bakelite.

Here is NileRed who gets pretty far considering he doesn't have a Bakelizer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phNLecfyWS8

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