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  1. #OnThisDay Astronauts landed on the moon in the #Apollo 14 mission (1971) - the third to land on the Moon.

    Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland announced the creation of #Bakelite, the world's first synthetic plastic (1909).

    Happy Birthday Cristiano #Ronaldo (1985) and #Neymar (1992).

    knowledgezone.co.in/news

  2. #Grass-roots ‘building block’ produces #sustainable #materials

    "The grass produces a #resin which can form a very strong bond when used as glue and which, once melted and solidified again, forms a #polymer that resembles #Bakelite, Rowan says.
    Under a microscope, strands of #spinifex reveal stretchy #cellulose #fibres just a few nanometres thick but thousands of nanometres long, and with a tensile strength eight times greater than #steel."

    nature.com/articles/d42473-022

  3. Retrotechtacular: Philips Factory Tour, circa 1930s - If you’ve got a half-hour or so to spare, you could do worse than this video trip through a Philip... - hackaday.com/2021/03/03/retrot #retrotechtacular #assemblyline #vacuumtube #bakelite #factory #philips #1930s #radio