Bakelite, the first synthetic plastic
1907 · Event
Leo Baekeland invents Bakelite, the first fully synthetic plastic, launching the age of modern materials.
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Around 1907
- Mexican Revolution (1910)
- Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910)
- Boxer Rebellion (1899)
- Russo-Japanese War (1904)
- Russian Revolution (1917)
- Irish revolutionary period (1912)
- Pop music: the 1900s (1900)
- Pop music: the 1910s (1910)
- Easter Rising / Irish War of Independence (1916)
- Lenin's leadership of Soviet Russia (1917)