Bakelite Review

Dow to J. S. Crider, March 29, 1924, DHC, folder 240023 Dow to James T. Pardee, January 14, 1924, folder 24001. Only in 1925 did the Dow Company receive the right to produce phenol under the patent. Dow to A. W. Smith, November 13, 1925, DHC, folder 250051. The patent had been filed by J. W. Aylsworth, who had developed a high-pressure process to manufacture phenol intended for Thomas Edison s phonographs. Bakelite Corporation, 1910-1935, Bakelite Review 1 (1936) 7 Vanderbilt,... 

Baekeland, Practical Life as a Complement to University Education, Perkin Medal Award address, JIEC 8 (February 1916) quotation on 184. Baekeland published his account of their family car tour in Baekeland, A Family Motor Tour through Europe (New York The Horseless Age, 1907), 3. A useful biographical obituary is Wallace P. Cohoe, Leo Hendrik Baekeland, 1863-1944, Year Book of the American Philosophical Society (Philadelphia APS, 1944) a typescript obituary, Celine Baekeland, Dr. L. H. Baekeland, May 1944, Family Correspondence (IV), box 10, Baekeland papers, Smithsonian Institution. Silver Anniversary, 1910 to 1935, Bakelite Review 7, no. 3 (1935) 20-22, Baekeland papers, Published and Unpublished Writings (VI), box 11, Smithsonian Institution. 

Baekeland to E. G. Oberlin, Naval Research Laboratory, May 13, 1926, Baekeland papers. Personal Correspondence, Smithsonian Institution, box 7 Bakelite Review 7, no. 3, Silver Anniversary Number, 1910-1935 (New York Bakelite Corporation, 1935) 14-17, quotation on 14. 

Bakehte, described in Review Question 25.1, is manufactured using materials like cellulose paper or glass fibers that are compressed and heated among the monomer units. Is Bakelite a simple polymer If not, what classification best fits Bakelite ... 

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