Friday, May 31, 2013
Leo Baekeland and Bake-O-Lite from the Ghent Museum.
So, about Leo Baekeland who was a Belgian scientist specifically he loved photochemistry and invented Velox. But upon selling his share of the rights to Velox to Kodak company in 1899 for $250,000 as part of his parting agreement he couldn't do photochemistry experiments again. So he invented Bake-O-Lite. The first fully synthetic hardening resin like compound. Used to make all sorts of household and industrial stuff. His children and grandchildren needless to say don't have to work for a living, but they do anyways to keep busy. There is apparently a kind of bake-o-lite that is used to coat electrical wires in old buildings which is drippy looking that we (my family and I) found in a home we were remodelling. I made that connection and just sat there for a while as my brain put itself back together.
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This was very cool to learn about and made me think a lot more about bake o lite. I now want to try to use this in my research, as it seems similar to the things I was using before.
ReplyDeleteI really liked hearing what the women knew, but damn, she was long winded. I really liked seeing the sem/tem because I got to work with these machines last semester for about 5 hours a week. I also thought it was funny about how we were using some machines at Platteville that are older then some of the pieces in the museum. Especially since the school has like 24 million dollars unused in the budget.
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