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050 4 _aTP140.B3
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100 1 _aMercelis, Joris,
_eauthor.
_925866
245 1 0 _aBeyond Bakelite :
_bLeo Baekeland and the business of science and invention /
_cJoris Mercelis.
264 1 _aCambridge, Massachusetts :
_bThe MIT Press,
_c2020.
264 2 _a[Piscataqay, New Jersey] :
_bIEEE Xplore,
_c[2020]
300 _a1 PDF.
336 _atext
_2rdacontent
337 _aelectronic
_2isbdmedia
338 _aonline resource
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aLemelson center studies in invention and innovation
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
506 _aRestricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers.
520 _a"I just want to say one word to you. Just one word. ... Plastics." This line from the film The Graduate has come to symbolize the hubris, promise, and disappointment embodied in one of the world's most ubiquitous materials. At present, plastics are cheap, widely used, and durable. But that durability means that plastics persist in the environment for decades. Images of swaths of the ocean or beaches awash in plastic trash are regularly in the news. To address the ever-growing mass of plastic waste, entire countries are banning single-use plastic items, and solutions for recycling plastic effectively and for creating eco-friendly plastics are active fields of research. A little over a century ago, however, Leo Baekeland's invention of the first synthetic plastic-Bakelite-earned him the then-laudatory moniker "Father of Plastics" in the press. Bakelite proved to be an extremely useful product, with applications ranging from radio cabinets and electrical insulators to colorful Art Deco jewelry. Yet there is much more to Leo Baekeland's story than Bakelite. In his exploration of Baekeland's long career, Joris Mercelis traces Baekeland's life from his youth in Belgium through his education and immigration to the United States, and highlights Baekeland's other best-known invention, Velox photographic paper. Throughout, Baekeland maintained his American and European professional connections and continued to cross boundaries between the academy, business, and industrial research. While the book does not offer a full biography of Baekeland, Mercelis does use Baekeland's career as tool for examining the changing relations between (academic) science and industry, with special attention to intellectual property strategies and scientific entrepreneurship. Mercelis argues that a transatlantic perspective is necessary to appreciate the role of scientific entrepreneurship and intellectual property in the development of the science-industry nexus, and ultimately asks the question when and where to draw the line between the academic research and industrial pursuits"--
_cProvided by publisher.
530 _aAlso available in print.
538 _aMode of access: World Wide Web
600 1 0 _aBaekeland, L. H.
_q(Leo Hendrik),
_d1863-1944.
_925867
650 0 _aIndustrial chemists
_zUnited States
_vBiography.
_925868
650 0 _aScience and industry.
_925869
650 0 _aInventions.
_915616
650 0 _aPlastics
_xHistory.
_925870
651 7 _aUnited States.
_2fast
_95686
655 4 _aElectronic books.
_93294
655 7 _aBiographies.
_2fast
_925871
655 7 _aHistory.
_2fast
_95289
710 2 _aIEEE Xplore (Online Service),
_edistributor.
_925872
710 2 _aMIT Press,
_epublisher.
_925873
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_aMercelis, Joris.
_tBeyond Bakelite.
_dCambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 2020
_z9780262538695
_w(DLC) 2019027006
_w(OCoLC)1108816885
830 0 _aLemelson Center studies in invention and innovation.
_925618
856 4 2 _3Abstract with links to resource
_uhttps://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/bkabstractplus.jsp?bkn=9072229
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