Materials & Manufacturing · Recorded milestone
Bakelite
Recorded year1907
Leo Baekeland's synthetic resin is the first fully synthetic plastic.
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Led to
- PolyethyleneRecorded · 1933enables
- NylonRecorded · 1935enables
- Compact discRecorded · 1982requires
- Plant-based plasticsRecorded · 2002requires
Sources & evidence
Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.