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Page 1 of 1Leo Baekeland
November 14, 1863 - February 23, 1944
Nationality: Belgian
Category: Inventor
|  In 1893 I founded a chemical company which I ran until 1899. | | I also served on many government committees. | | Then I was president of the Bakelite Corporation from 1910 to 1930. | | I was trying to make something really hard, but then I thought I should make something really soft instead, that could be molded into different shapes. That was how I came up with the first plastic. I called it Bakelite. | | Well, it was kind of an accident, because plastic is not what I meant to invent. I had just sold photograph paper to Eastman Kodak for 1 million dollars. |
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