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Museums · South West England

Bakelite Museum

In or near Williton.

Bakelite Museum — First synthetic plastic.

Bakelite Museum

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Bakelite Museum is a museum in south west. Established 1995. (First synthetic plastic.) Wikipedia notes: "Bakelite, was the first plastic made from synthetic components. It was developed by Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland in Yonkers, New York, in 1907, and patented on December 7, 1909.". Coordinates 51.1570°, -3.3271°. Sources are credited at the bottom of this page.

Coordinates
51.1570, -3.3271
Established
1995

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