Pioneer Plastic: The Making And Selling Of Celluloid by Robert Friedel
Pioneer Plastic: The Making And Selling Of Celluloid

Robert Friedel

Pioneer Plastic: The Making And Selling Of Celluloid

Robert Friedel

153 pages first pub 1983 (editions)

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In 1869, an Albany printer discovered how to mix nitrocellulose with camphor under high pressure to yield a hard, shiny, moldable substance which he and his brother called celluloid. This discovery was the dawn of the Plastics Age, but it represen...

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