Plastic was first invented in 1862 but it didn’t really take off until the Bakelite phone was created.
Oil based plastics:
1907: The Bakelite phone was the start of a plastic revolution and soon people were wearing jewellery made out of it.
1908: Cellophane was invented and then later patented when Whitman’s candy started wrapping their sweets in it.
1920: PVC is invented and used for construction in many fields such as the medical field as in medical fluid tubes.
1925: The word Plastic is widely used to describe what we, today, call plastic.
1933: Polyethylene invented and dubbed the everything plastic
1938: Roy Plunkett discovers Teflon, which is widely used for kitchen tops.
1939: Nylon is created and used for a variety of clothing products
1951: Polyester fabric marketed as Dacron used for camera film
1953: a general electric researcher invents polycarbonate.
1954: Polystyrene manufactured from petroleum by Dow
1965: Stephanie Kwolek develops Kevlar
1979: Maiden mills creates first synthetic clothing marketed as polar fleece.
Bio-plastic
1862: The first ever man made plastic was a bio-plastic. It was made from cellulose nitrate and wascalles Parkesine.
1924: Henry Ford uses food stock to create a bio-plastic for car construction
1941: Henry Ford unveils the first bio-plastic car
1970’s: people demanded that research should be done on creating a non oil based plastic because of the oil crisis
1990: A British Company called Imperial Chemical Industries developed a bioplastic, Biopol, that was biodegradable.
Oil based plastics:
1907: The Bakelite phone was the start of a plastic revolution and soon people were wearing jewellery made out of it.
1908: Cellophane was invented and then later patented when Whitman’s candy started wrapping their sweets in it.
1920: PVC is invented and used for construction in many fields such as the medical field as in medical fluid tubes.
1925: The word Plastic is widely used to describe what we, today, call plastic.
1933: Polyethylene invented and dubbed the everything plastic
1938: Roy Plunkett discovers Teflon, which is widely used for kitchen tops.
1939: Nylon is created and used for a variety of clothing products
1951: Polyester fabric marketed as Dacron used for camera film
1953: a general electric researcher invents polycarbonate.
1954: Polystyrene manufactured from petroleum by Dow
1965: Stephanie Kwolek develops Kevlar
1979: Maiden mills creates first synthetic clothing marketed as polar fleece.
Bio-plastic
1862: The first ever man made plastic was a bio-plastic. It was made from cellulose nitrate and wascalles Parkesine.
1924: Henry Ford uses food stock to create a bio-plastic for car construction
1941: Henry Ford unveils the first bio-plastic car
1970’s: people demanded that research should be done on creating a non oil based plastic because of the oil crisis
1990: A British Company called Imperial Chemical Industries developed a bioplastic, Biopol, that was biodegradable.
