SOC 3116 Lecture Notes - Leo Baekeland, Bakelite, Wiebe Bijker
20 Mar 2014
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Technological frame, inclusion: the invention of bakelite: bijker used the case study of bakelite to stray from the myth of the invention of the. Lone genius : used closure, stabilization, rsg"s and other previously used terms, but also inclusion and the idea of the technological frame, leo hendrik baekeland invented bakelite in 1907; Bakelite would cause baekeland to become highly-respected as a great. It is heat and electricity insulated, fire resistant: it is the first plastic invented that held its shape after being heated. The first synthetic plastic: became widely used to manufacture a number of artifacts, from jewelry to mechanical parts, glorious development to the age of plastic, history of plastics, precursors to bakelite. Old plastics : resin, horn, tortoiseshells, ivory (luxury market) New plastics made from natural materials: rubber; ugly, celluloid; flammable, could deform. Search for synthetic plastics: concerns about scarcity of natural resources, demand for consumer products consumers emerging as a new.
