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Pioneer Plastic
Robert Friedel
其他書名
The Making and Selling of Celluloid
出版DIANE Publishing Company, 1999-07
主題Technology & Engineering / Technical & Manufacturing Industries & Trades
ISBN07881645899780788164583
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=uNYNAQAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋In 1869, an Albany printer discovered how to mix nitrocellulose with camphor under high pressure to yield a hard, shiny, moldable substance which he and his brother called celluloid. This discovery was the dawn of the Plastics Age, but it represented only the first step in establishing a new technology. Examines the 20 years of laboratory trial and error that produced the first artificial plastic, as well as the equally difficult challenge of selling the product to a public that wasn't sure what to use it for. He shows how the struggle to find uses for the new material and to create markets for it was as significant as solving the problems of making it. Illustrated.