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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.

Leo Baekeland

Leo Baekeland Biography

  Nationality: Belgian
Type: Inventor

Born: November 14, 1863
Death: February 23, 1944
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