To find a syntheticand cheap replacement for shellac, which was a high-in-demand and increasingly expensive natural resin (produced by the lac-insect kerria lacca) in the 19th and early decades of the 20th century. The production of shellac depended on complex factors of climate and forest economies in India, which were made more complicated by the colonial situation and long distance of travel from the product's origin.
Leo Hendrik Baekeland was born on November 14, 1863.
Barbara Daly Baekeland was born in 1922.
Leo Curbelo goes by Leo.
Leo Ryan Howard plays Leo Little on Leo Little's Big Show
Leo The Lion
Leo Hendrik Baekeland invented Bakelite in 1907. =)
Plastic
The first commercially successful form of plastic, called Bakelite.
Leo Baekeland's parents' names were Jacobus Henricus Baekeland and Rosalia Merens.
Leo Hendrik Baekeland was born on November 14, 1863.
Leo Hendrik Baekeland was born on November 14, 1863.
Leo Hendrik Baekeland died on February 23, 1944 at the age of 80.
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He was born 1863
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Leo Hendrik Baekeland