Bakelite Beads
Bakelite Beads
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- Description
- Bakelite, the first plastic made from synthetic components, was developed by the Belgian-American chemist Leo Baekeland in Yonkers, New York, in 1907. In 1931, the Bakelite Corporation gave the Smithsonian several items made of Bakelite. This string of Bakelite beads is from that donation.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Bakelite Beads
- maker
- Bakelite Corporation
- Associated Place
- United States: New Jersey
- Measurements
- overall: 17 1/8 in x 5/8 in x 1 3/4 in; 43.4975 cm x 1.5875 cm x 4.445 cm
- ID Number
- AG.A.4586
- catalog number
- A.4586
- accession number
- 1931.116481
- Credit Line
- Bakelite Corporation
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Chemistry
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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