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Century of Plastic Celebrated in London

Tuesday, May 22, 2007 3:29:29 PM
By RAPHAEL G. SATTER

In this undated image provided on Tuesday, May 22, 2007, by London's Science Museum, museum staff member Georgina Wright sits in an exhibit, the Toyota Motor Corp.'s I-unit, an electric car built almost entirely of material derived from corn, sugar cane, and the African kenaf plant. An exhibition at London's Science Museum, celebrating the 100th birthday of the world's first entirely synthetic material, plastic, opens Tuesday. Belgian-American chemist Leo Baekeland created his phenol-formaldehyde polymer resin, Bakelite, in 1907 and it sparked a revolution in manufacturing, transport, fashion, design, and more. (AP Photo/Adrian Brooks, Science Museum, ho) LONDON (AP) - Strap on your PVC boots, hike up your nylon stockings. It's time to celebrate the 100th birthday of the world's first entirely synthetic material, one that revolutionized manufacturing, transportation, fashion and more.

Plastic.

An exhibition opening Wednesday at London's Science Museum looks to a future that includes plastic blood and airplanes that can shift shapes in flight.


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