#45 Straight Edge
Named after its Austrain inventor, Dr. Leo Baekeland, Bakelite is recognized as the world's first synthetic plastic. Bakelite was widely used from the late 1920s to the 1940s in a myriad of applications, from early machineguns to at one point consideration for the manufacture of coins (the U.S. government in 1943 settled on zinc coated steel for the penny rather than bakelite). The retro appeal of Bakelite products has made them a collectible item. |
