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Bakelite (/ ˈbeɪkəlaɪt / BAY-kə-lyte), formally polyoxybenzylmethyleneglycolanhydride, is a thermosetting phenol formaldehyde resin, formed from a condensation reaction of phenol with formaldehyde. The first plastic made from synthetic components, it was developed by Leo Baekeland in Yonkers, New York, in 1907, and patented on ...
Leo Baekeland. Leo Hendrik Baekeland HonFRSE (November 14, 1863 – February 23, 1944) was a Belgian chemist. Educated in Belgium and Germany, he spent most of his career in the United States. He is best known for the inventions of Velox photographic paper in 1893, and Bakelite in 1907.
Tru-Vue Chicagoland model 3D viewer with package and black&white films. A Tru-Vue viewer and film cards from 1953, by which time the company had relocated to Oregon and become a subsidiary of Sawyer's. Tru-Vue, a subsidiary of Rock Island Bridge and Iron Works, was a manufacturer of stereoscopic filmstrips and corresponding stereoscope viewers ...
Bakelite is a brown-black mouldable thermosetting plastic, and is still used in some products today. In the 1930s some radios were manufactured using Catalin , which is the phenolic resin component of bakelite, with no organic filler added, but nearly all historic bakelite radios are the standard black-brown bakelite color.
Revere Ware. Vintage Revere Ware, manufactured before 1968 and carrying the prized "Process Patent" maker's mark on the thick copper bottom, is finding its way back into modern kitchens. (Photo courtesy of Blane van Pletzen-Rands) Revere Ware was a line of consumer and commercial kitchen wares introduced in 1939 by the Revere Brass & Copper Corp.
Catalin is a brand name for a thermosetting polymer developed and trademarked in 1927 by the American Catalin Corporation of New York City, when the patent on Bakelite expired that year. [1] A phenol formaldehyde resin, it can be worked with files, grinders, and cutters, and polished to a fine sheen. Catalin is produced by a two-stage process ...
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Volksempfänger VE301 - The distinctive Bakelite cabinet was designed by the architect and industrial designer Walter Maria Kersting.. The Volksempfänger (German: [ˈfɔlks.ɛmˌpfɛŋɐ], “people’s receiver”) was a range of low-cost radio receivers produced in Nazi Germany, developed by engineer Otto Griessing at the request of Joseph Goebbels, the Reich Minister of Propaganda.