In 1869, produced an American, John Wesley Hyatt, a material called celluloid, which was used to replace ivory to produce billiard balls. It could be molded hot and was touched when he cooled down. Later it was used to make photographic film. Leo Hendrik Baekeland was the first thermosetting plastic "Bakelite" in 1909. Bakelite is a condensation polymer of phenol and formaldehyde. In 1877, merged Hyatt Corporation and the British Xylonite Xylonite Company, which exists today as BXL Plastics Ltd.
The man who looked more plastic than any other, however, was the Belgian Leo Baekeland, who emigrated to the United States in 1889 to better use his talents. In 1907 he invented the Bakelite plastic which dominate the next 50 years. By the year 1930, audio CD, billiard balls (originally of elephant tusks!), Phone, camera cases, radios, and chairs were all made of a new super-plastic.
It took almost the beginning of the twentieth century that a second plastic material has been produced. Spitteler Adolph, who was a German, a mixture of sour milk and formaldehyde with a material that was really casein plastics. In 1909, an American born in Belgium, Dr. Leo Baekeland, was trying to manufacture a synthetic resin. He did it successfully with phenol and formaldehyde and the mixture under certain conditions to produce the first synthetic resin. This new plastic was called Bakelite. "
Many new plastics were made after the production of Bakelite. Research in the line of plastics has given great impetus to research and invention in many different areas of risk. Millions of dollars are spent each year on research of plastic, plastic trying to find new and improve existing ones.
