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jan 1, 1905 - Plastic

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Plastic
The first truly synthetic plastic was invented by Leo Baekeland – a Belgium chemist living in New York. Baekeland was already very rich as he had invented the first commercially successful photographic paper and sold it to George Eastman in 1898 for $1 million

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jan 1, 1905
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~ 120 years ago

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