When Leo Hendrik Baekeland invented Bakelite in 1907, he changed the world — ushering in the Age of Plastics and transforming the way people lived. The phenolic resin took off first as a superior, ...

PARIS — Her fingers ran over the smooth red buttons with flecks of gold and the wavy sea-green buttons and the black buttons with ridges that made them look like miniature fans. Yoshini Kondo admired ...

In 1909 a Belgian chemist called Leo Baekeland patented a new malleable material called poly-oxy-benzyl-methyl-englycol-anhydride. Thankfully we know it today as Bakelite and it's often said to be the ...

WATERLOO -- The Black Hawk Button Club will meet at 1 p.m. April 24 at St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, 207 W. Louise St. There will be a program on Bakelite buttons as well as buttons available ...