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Film Screening: All Things Bakelite
September 12, 2017 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
This film by John Maher is a joyous and provocative story about the “father of modern plastics.” In 1907, Leo Hendrik Baekeland, a Belgian-born American chemist, made one of the most transformative discoveries of the 20th century: Bakelite. It was the first wholly synthetic plastic and it ushered in an explosion of new man-made materials that marked the beginnings of our modern industrial age. RSVPScience@brucemuseum.org or 203-413-6757.
