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Parkesine, the first member of the Celluloid class of compounds and considered the first man-made plastic, is patented by Alexander Parkes. [4] 1869: John Wesley Hyatt discovers a method to simplify the production of celluloid, making industrial production possible. 1872: PVC is accidentally synthesized in 1872 by German chemist Eugen Baumann ...
An 1853 ad in Spanish in the bilingual Los Angeles Star for Lazard & Kremer dry goods S. Lazard & Co.'s store on Main St. between 1866 and 1872 Hamburger's, "The People's Store" Spring Street Early 1880s Stern, Cahn & Loeb's City of Paris department store at 105-7 N. Spring St. (post-1890 numbering: 205-7 Spring), sometime between 1883 and 1890 Hamburger's building (later May Co. flagship) at ...
Harrison Gray Otis, founder and owner of the Los Angeles Times, and a number of business colleagues embarked on reshaping southern California by expanding that into a harbor at San Pedro using federal dollars. The Los Angeles & San Pedro Railroad was the first railroad in Los Angeles, photo ca.1880.
Eldon Industries, Inc. was a toy company located in Hawthorne, California (the hometown of the Mattel toy company), that also in its heyday operated factories in Canada, Spain, England, Japan, and the Netherlands.
Los Angeles: mid-1920s: Tile & architectural products [25] Bauer Pottery Company of Los Angeles: Los Angeles: 2000–present "Bauer 2000" Tableware, art ware & kitchenware [28] Belmar of California: Los Angeles: 1965–1967: Art ware [14] Bell Manufacturing and Sales Co. Los Angeles: 1950s: Figurines & art ware [11] The Bennetts: North ...
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Cream jug made at either Wistarberg or at Glassboro in a plant led by former Wistar workers, Los Angeles County Museum of Art. In 1738 Caspar Wistar, a German immigrant and manufacturer of brass buttons in Philadelphia, began plans for a glass works by purchasing land in Salem County, New Jersey. [Note 2] Production started in 1739. [32]
Plastic bags were found to constitute a significant portion of the floating marine debris in the waters around southern Chile in a study conducted between 2002 and 2005. [29] Plastic bags don't do well in the environment, but several government studies have found them to be an environmentally friendly carryout bag option.