#bakelite — Public Fediverse posts
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I was thinking and documenting myself about resource transformation and #technology tree for my game, and I think it should be possible to make #Bakelite (a kind of rigid #plastic) out of #wood. With almost nothing else but wood.
This chart also shows how to get charcoal, potash, methanol, acetone and formaldehyde. Out of wood.
I still need to work out the quantities to see if these are reasonable production processes or not.
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I was thinking and documenting myself about resource transformation and #technology tree for my game, and I think it should be possible to make #Bakelite (a kind of rigid #plastic) out of #wood. With almost nothing else but wood.
This chart also shows how to get charcoal, potash, methanol, acetone and formaldehyde. Out of wood.
I still need to work out the quantities to see if these are reasonable production processes or not.
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Listening to an anti-plastics activist on the radio, and they claim that plastic (described as Bakelite) was invented in 1950. Um, you're about 100 years off... The first human-made plastic was #Parkesine, invented in 1855. Oh, and #Bakelite was invented in 1907, not 1950! I know during my radio stints, I did all my fact-checking before I went on the air. 🤦🏼
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Listening to an anti-plastics activist on the radio, and they claim that plastic (described as Bakelite) was invented in 1950. Um, you're about 100 years off... The first human-made plastic was #Parkesine, invented in 1855. Oh, and #Bakelite was invented in 1907, not 1950! I know during my radio stints, I did all my fact-checking before I went on the air. 🤦🏼
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This is my almost complete set of Singer 306 Class Fashion Discs. Introduced in the 1950s, the Singer 306 Class Fashion Discs, also referred to
https://tallysew.com/machine-accessories/singer-accessories/singer-306-class-fashion-discs/
#Bakelite #FashionDiscs #FlatDiscs #Singer #SingerACams #SingerCams #StitchPatternCams #ZigZag #TallahasseeFlorida
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#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).
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#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).
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Remember the old UK bakelite 13A plugs?
If you dropped them on a stone or concrete floor they would crack and/or break.
If the plug was deemed to be repairable it was a case of dismantle the plug and grab the tubes of Araldite from where they were stored.
Then carefully glue the broken bits back together, taping them for 24 hours while the epoxy resin hardened and then the plug could be screwed back together the day after.
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@TimWardCam that is very very tempting indeed. Can't do wrong with a big ol' lump of #bakelite!
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@TimWardCam that is very very tempting indeed. Can't do wrong with a big ol' lump of #bakelite!
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Hacking a Heavyweight Philco Radio https://hackaday.com/2025/03/10/hacking-a-heavyweight-philco-radio/ #portableradio #classichacks #RadioHacks #midcentury #Teardown #Bakelite #Philco #AC.DC #radio #News
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Hacking a Heavyweight Philco Radio https://hackaday.com/2025/03/10/hacking-a-heavyweight-philco-radio/ #portableradio #classichacks #RadioHacks #midcentury #Teardown #Bakelite #Philco #AC.DC #radio #News
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Hacking a Heavyweight Philco Radio - There’s something magical about the clunk of a heavy 1950s portable radio – the so... - https://hackaday.com/2025/03/10/hacking-a-heavyweight-philco-radio/ #portableradio #classichacks #radiohacks #midcentury #teardown #bakelite #philco #ac.dc #radio #news
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Hacking a Heavyweight Philco Radio - There’s something magical about the clunk of a heavy 1950s portable radio – the so... - https://hackaday.com/2025/03/10/hacking-a-heavyweight-philco-radio/ #portableradio #classichacks #radiohacks #midcentury #teardown #bakelite #philco #ac.dc #radio #news
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#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).
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#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).
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Bakelite to the Future – A 1950s Bluetooth Headset - A decade ago, [Jouke Waleson] bought a Dutch ‘model 1950’ PTT (The Dutch Postal Se... - https://hackaday.com/2024/10/31/bakelite-to-the-future-a-1950s-bluetooth-headset/ #bluetoothclassic #esp32-wrover-32 #rotarytelephone #phonehacks #handsfree #bakelite #esp32 #ptt
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Bakelite to the Future – A 1950s Bluetooth Headset - A decade ago, [Jouke Waleson] bought a Dutch ‘model 1950’ PTT (The Dutch Postal Se... - https://hackaday.com/2024/10/31/bakelite-to-the-future-a-1950s-bluetooth-headset/ #bluetoothclassic #esp32-wrover-32 #rotarytelephone #phonehacks #handsfree #bakelite #esp32 #ptt
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In 1907, Leo Baekeland invented the first synthetic plastic, Bakelite. #Poetry #Science #History #Chemistry #Bakelite #Baekeland (https://sharpgiving.com/thebookofscience/items/p1907b.html)
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In 1907, Leo Baekeland invented the first synthetic plastic, Bakelite. #Poetry #Science #History #Chemistry #Bakelite #Baekeland (https://sharpgiving.com/thebookofscience/items/p1907b.html)
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#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).
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#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).
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The #plastic paradox: How plastics went from #elephant saviors to eco-villains
Do the benefits of plastics outweigh the costs?
January 23, 2024
"It was 1869, and something needed to be done.
"With the price of #ivory skyrocketing, billiard ball manufacturers were scrambling for an alternative. The prized material derived from #ElephantTusks was being used to craft such things as knife handles, piano keys, dice, dominoes, chessmen, and yes, billiard balls. Now, with elephants growing scarce from overhunting, the wonder material was becoming difficult to procure and unreasonably expensive. After all, one tusk would yield just four or five balls. Leading pool table manufacturer Phelan and Collender offered $10,000 ($225,000 today) to any inventor who could discover a replacement for ivory.
"Albany inventor John Wesley Hyatt answered the call, molding together camphor, nitrocellulose, and alcohol under extreme pressure. His concoction, called #celluloid, was one of the first synthetic plastics. While Hyatt’s creation proved an unwieldy material for billiard balls — insufficiently durable and mildly explosive when struck — it inspired others to formulate something better. A few decades later, American chemist Leo Baekeland came up with the petroleum-derived #Bakelite. It became the first commercially successful synthetic plastic, and very likely saved elephants from extinction.
"More than a century later, this story has morphed into an intriguing irony…With their creation, plastics probably saved countless species — both plants and animals — from extinction. Derived from byproducts of #FossilFuel production, which had previously gone unused, the invention of synthetic plastics meant that humans no longer had to pillage the living #NaturalWorld to produce various products for a technologically advancing global society. Fast-forward to today: Plastics are demonized for eroding the environment and endangering human health, prompting many to wonder if we’d be better off without them."
Read more / listen:
https://bigthink.com/the-present/plastics-costs-benefits-paradox/?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us#Health #Plastic
#Toxic #ToxicChemicals #Environment #Microplastic #Pollution #Paradox -
The #plastic paradox: How plastics went from #elephant saviors to eco-villains
Do the benefits of plastics outweigh the costs?
January 23, 2024
"It was 1869, and something needed to be done.
"With the price of #ivory skyrocketing, billiard ball manufacturers were scrambling for an alternative. The prized material derived from #ElephantTusks was being used to craft such things as knife handles, piano keys, dice, dominoes, chessmen, and yes, billiard balls. Now, with elephants growing scarce from overhunting, the wonder material was becoming difficult to procure and unreasonably expensive. After all, one tusk would yield just four or five balls. Leading pool table manufacturer Phelan and Collender offered $10,000 ($225,000 today) to any inventor who could discover a replacement for ivory.
"Albany inventor John Wesley Hyatt answered the call, molding together camphor, nitrocellulose, and alcohol under extreme pressure. His concoction, called #celluloid, was one of the first synthetic plastics. While Hyatt’s creation proved an unwieldy material for billiard balls — insufficiently durable and mildly explosive when struck — it inspired others to formulate something better. A few decades later, American chemist Leo Baekeland came up with the petroleum-derived #Bakelite. It became the first commercially successful synthetic plastic, and very likely saved elephants from extinction.
"More than a century later, this story has morphed into an intriguing irony…With their creation, plastics probably saved countless species — both plants and animals — from extinction. Derived from byproducts of #FossilFuel production, which had previously gone unused, the invention of synthetic plastics meant that humans no longer had to pillage the living #NaturalWorld to produce various products for a technologically advancing global society. Fast-forward to today: Plastics are demonized for eroding the environment and endangering human health, prompting many to wonder if we’d be better off without them."
Read more / listen:
https://bigthink.com/the-present/plastics-costs-benefits-paradox/?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us#Health #Plastic
#Toxic #ToxicChemicals #Environment #Microplastic #Pollution #Paradox -
Recently posted on Instagram:
You can never own too many View Master projectors, right? Right? #viewmaster #viewmasterprojector #bakelite
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Recently posted on Instagram:
You can never own too many View Master projectors, right? Right? #viewmaster #viewmasterprojector #bakelite
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#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." -
#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." -
Omg children remember when my sister and I drove 9 TUBS of #bakelite, #celluloid & other #vintage #buttons from my mom's #collection/ #hoard to a store in Berkeley last year??
Like please take these buttons.
Celluloid buttons are flammable, btw.
Well, I found another cache of buttons.
My #lgbtq #artist #sober friends in #NC LOVE the little bottle of buttons I brought back so now I really want to #liberate these ones for the gays 🤷♀️
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Since I acquired some brown filament, I've been thinking about printing some small replicas of vintage #bakelite radios. This PLA has something like that look.
They're beautiful things from an iconic and influential age of design.
Here are four attractive ones that would work with my filament supply. The design capture would be a fun effort too.
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Since I acquired some brown filament, I've been thinking about printing some small replicas of vintage #bakelite radios. This PLA has something like that look.
They're beautiful things from an iconic and influential age of design.
Here are four attractive ones that would work with my filament supply. The design capture would be a fun effort too.
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Seeing my brown PLA filament printing I'm getting ideas about other stuff to print with it. It would be great for replicas of old #Bakelite electronics gear, like radios and instruments of various kinds. Also old rusty metal things.
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Seeing my brown PLA filament printing I'm getting ideas about other stuff to print with it. It would be great for replicas of old #Bakelite electronics gear, like radios and instruments of various kinds. Also old rusty metal things.
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Anybody on here like Bakelite?
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@ringo
I understand the feud and all thru history. History and religion are two of my favorite subjects. Religion mainly for the sociology aspects.LeVays book is somewhat laughable. Not real heavy into true dark religion. More of a 'dont be used; worship yourself' theme. Palpable for the masses. Seems written as a shoe-in, culture wise, for a greater push, like we see now.
Good thing u said something! I was about to pick up the ADL blue-phone. I have a direct line.. #Bakelite style
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Two more Antique Cameras I have added to my Collection
The Kodak Bantam f8 - Produced from 1935-1948 - Original Cost $4.75 - Used 828 film
The Kodak Junior Six-16 Series ll Produced from 1938-1949 - Original Cost $12.00 - Used 616 film
#photo #photography #antique #cameras #kodak #film #VintageCamera #bakelite #folding
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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... - https://hackaday.com/2021/03/03/retrotechtacular-philips-factory-tour-circa-1930s/ #retrotechtacular #assemblyline #vacuumtube #bakelite #factory #philips #1930s #radio
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Nixies Adorn a Cold War Relic to Make a Geiger Clock - Say what you will about the centrally planned economies of the Soviet bloc during the Cold War, bu... more: https://hackaday.com/2020/02/27/nixies-adorn-a-cold-war-relic-to-make-a-geiger-clock/ #geigercounter #classichacks #clockhacks #bakelite #classic #clock #nixie #retro
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