Nazi Radios: The iPod of Their Time - James Holland on Lex
#Bakelite
"Bakelite was the first plastic used to make radio cases, allowing for sleek, modern designs not possible with wooden construction. Invented in 1907 by Belgian-born chemist Leo Hendrik Baekeland (1863-1944) at his home laboratory in Yonkers, New York, Bakelite was the tradename for a lightweight, easily molded plastic, thermosetting phenolic resin. While the color of Bakelite was initially a translucent amber, the addition of fillers and heat in the manufacturing process changed the plastic into its characteristically opaque, dark brown color. Do you own any Bakelite? Radio is courtesy of Steve Kushman. "On the Radio" is on display, post-security, in Terminal 3. http://bit.ly/RadioSFO" This was posted to our Instagram account on April 12, 2018 – https://millsfield.sfomuseum.org/instagram/1729358359/
Memories of Winter
📷 M.I.O.M Photax III
🎞️ Rollei Retro 400 S
⚗️ Adonal 1+25
#believeinfilm
#filmphotography
#bakelite
#photax
#120rolledto620
#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).
We received our first Sunday delivery. An early #Christmas #present from @John, I unwrapped a tiny #Bakelite #rowcounter from him. It has the words “use Patons #knitting wools” I am amazed at how tiny it is.
Thank you John. I will treasure it… and use it.
// Reprenons sur les rangements de mon bureau.
Nous avons ici un tourne-disque de la marque GID (Guilde Internationale du Disque) datant des années 1950, à 3 vitesses (33, 45 & 78 tours).
Bras et boutons en bakélite sur ce modèle portatif à enceinte détachable.
#33tours #45tours #78tours #bakelite
In 1907, Leo Baekeland invented the first synthetic plastic, Bakelite. #Poetry #Science #History #Chemistry #Bakelite #Baekeland (https://sharpgiving.com/thebookofscience/items/p1907b.html)
#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).
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
Put these things together:
• an iPhone, to stream playlists from the ’60s
• a 1948 Philco bakelite radio
• a home AM transmitter, broadcasting on the radio’s frequency
and you’ve got that perfect AM grunge that I heard when I was 9 or 10 years old, listening to the British Invasion. It’s magic.
Recently posted on Instagram:
You can never own too many View Master projectors, right? Right? #viewmaster #viewmasterprojector #bakelite
Bakelite banana necklace with dangling butterscotch bananas and circular round yellow beads and a yellow clasp, overall length 49.5cm.
Sold at auction by Bonham's, Los Angeles, January 2023.
#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).
#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 🤷♀️
I just spent an enjoyable morning browsing this vintage #bakelite collection and wanted to share.
https://www.estatesales.net/NY/Pine-Bush/12566/3518475
Listing by Flannery's Estate Services (I'm not affiliated):
https://flannerysestateservices.com/servlet/Search.do?auctionId=85
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.
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.
@wildfirescot Aah yes, but #bakelite comes in all kinds of pretty colours...
And the oceans of #hotChocolate sounds NICE. I think I'll need to subscribe to #TelephoneSunday instead of muting it 😉
@gregorj do you think I’m a sadist? It’ll be wall to wall #cake and oceans of #hotchocolate on #TelephoneSunday and lots of #bakelite (less tasty)
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