Top 4 Leo Baekeland Quotes
#1. 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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#2. 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.
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#3. How few people will realize how much detail had to be gone into before Bakelite was a commercial success.
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#4. Then I was president of the Bakelite Corporation from 1910 to 1930.
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