Meikle, Jeffrey

Meikle, Jeffrey L. American PlaAtic A Cultural Hi tory. http //www.ilo.org/public/ english/protection/ safe work/ cis/products/icsc/dtasht/ icsci4/icsci488.htm (accessed on October 24, 2005). 

Meikle, Jeffrey L. American PlaAtic A Cultural History. Piscat away, N.J. Rutgers University Press, 1997. 

Meikle, Jeffrey L. Materials and Metaphors Plastics in American Culture. In New Perspectives on Technology and American Culture, edited by Bruce Sinclair, 31-47. Library Publication No. 12. Philadelphia American Philosophical Society, 1986. 

Meikle, Jeffrey L. (1997) Material Doubts. The Consequences of Plastic Environmental History, 2, 3 278-300. 

Meikle, Jeffrey. American Plastic A Cultural History. New Brunswick, N.J. Rulers University Press, 1995. 

Jeffrey L. Meikle. Materia Nova Plastics and Design in the U.S., 1925-1935. In The Development of Plastics. S. T. I. Mossman and P. J. T. Morris, eds. London Royal Society of Chemistry (1994) 38-53. Source for designers liking plastic. 

In his remarkable study of plastics in American culture, Jeffrey Meikle (1995) emphasizes that plastics have often been presented as utopian materials , and that they gradually came to epitomize a kind of dream world. Such a utopian world is played out not only in the rapprochement between plastics and Disney World, which relies on the abundance of fibreglass-reinforced polyester structures in the amusement park at Orlando, but also through the material-cultural values developed along with the use of everyday plastic objects, from BIC pens to razors, telephones and credit cards. In this way, the daily experience of plastics transformed American culture Increasingly that culture was seen as one of plasticity, of mobility, of change, and of open possibility for people of every economic class (Meikle 1995 45). Indeed, the... 

Baekeland, Practical Life as a Complement to University Education, Perkin Medal Award address, JIEC 8 (February 1916) 187 Bakelite Corporation, 1910-1935, Bakelite Review 7 (1936) 12, 18, 30-38 Bakelite, Time 4, no. 12 (September 22, 1924) 20. Jeffrey Meikle discusses efforts to popularize early plastics by the Bakelite Corporation and also others who envisaged a utopian world of limitless applications of the material. Meikle, Materials and Metaphors Plastics in American Culture and Meikle, Plastic, Material of a Thousand Uses. ... 

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