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Patricia Billings was born in 1926 in Clinton, Missouri to a farmer and his wife. [3] She married a salesman and began working as a medical technologist, studying fungal and bacterial diseases at Kansas City Junior College. [3]
The first plastic made from synthetic components, it was developed by Leo Baekeland in Yonkers, New York, in 1907, and patented on December 7, 1909. [ 3 ] Bakelite was one of the first plastic-like materials to be introduced into the modern world and was popular because it could be moulded and then hardened into any shape.
Homasote was widely used as wall sheeting from the 1940s into the 1970s. Due to the development of more fire-resistant gypsum board, it has decreased in popularity as a wall sheeting. Homasote is found in studio spaces and featured in many art institutions as a wall covering and doubling as a type of cork board.
Plastic consumption uses by field. Filler materials are particles added to binders (resin, thermoplastics, cement) to make a composite material. Filler materials improve specific properties or make the product cheaper. [1] Coarse filler materials such as construction aggregate and rebar are used in the building industry to make plaster, mortar ...
Polyolefins are a family of thermoplastics that include polyethylene — the material used to make single-use and "reusable" plastic bags — and polypropylene — the ubiquitous plastic that ...
Cement powder in a bag, ready to be mixed with aggregates and water. [1] Cement block construction examples from the Multiplex Manufacturing Company of Toledo, Ohio, in 1905. A cement is a binder, a chemical substance used for construction that sets, hardens, and adheres to other materials to bind them together.
Engineers created a breakthrough cement that's 17 times stronger, leading to safer and more durable buildings. And they used an astonishing secret weapon.
This is the first in a three-part series about Marx Toys and the people who made them. Toys under the tree on Christmas morning weren't always made at the North Pole.