Plastics Historical Society

Plastics Historic Society and Encyclopaedia Britannica (2005) History of plastic, Bulletin for the History of Chemistry, 30(1). 

Plastics Historical Society, http //plastiquarian.com have information about the history and production of plastics. 

Morgan, J. (1994). A survey of plastics in historical collections. Plastics Historical Society and The Conservation Unit of Museums and Galleries Commission [online]. Available from http //www.plastiquarian.com/survey/survey.html [Accessed 7 March 2007]. 

The relevance of the historical development of plastics to conservation professionals is largely as a tool to date or help identify the types of materials or technologies represented in collections. Conservators and historians are also interested in the reasons and background to the development of plastics. A brief history of the development of plastics is presented in this chapter. More detailed information may be obtained from publications and the website of the Plastics Historical Society (Plastics Historical Society, 2006 Mossman, 1997). 

Morgan, J. (1993). A joint project on the conservation of plastics by The Conservation Unit and the Plastics Historical Society. In Postprints of Saving the Twentieth Century The Conservation of Modem Materiak Ottawa, 15-20 September 1991 (D. Grattan, ed.), pp. 43-50, Canadian Conservation Institute. 

This engaging historical account tells how the development of plastics has had a profound effect on our society. 

For a historical survey of plastics, see S.T.I. Mossman and Peter J.T. Morris, eds. The Development of Plastics (Cambridge Royal Society of Chemistry, special publication no. 141,1994). 

W. Blakey, The history of aminoplastics The sixth Chance Memorial Lecture of the Society of Chemical Industry, Chemistry and Industry, (25 July 1964), 1349-1357, on p. 1352. Blakey received a D.Phil. in organic chemistry from Kings College, Cambridge, in 1928, and shortly after joined British Cyanides to undertake research into aminoplastic moulding compounds. Blakey was appointed chairman of British Industrial Plastics in 1962, one year after the firm was merged with Turner Newall Ltd. This lecture is an extremely useful source of information on aminoplastic developments. See also C.P. Vale and W.G.K. iy oi Aminoplastics (London Iliffe Books, 1964), which includes a historical introduction, and a portrait of Hanns John who in 1918 patented the first industrial use of urea-formaldehyde resins. 

Economy J and Parkar Z (2011), Historical perspectives of phenolic resins , in Strom E T and Rasmussen S C, 100+ Years of Plastics Leo Baekeland and Beyond, ACS Symposium Series American Chemical Society, Washington, DC. 

ACS (1993) BakeUte The World s First Synthetic Plastic, American Chemical Society National Historic Chemical Landmarks. [ http //www.acs.org/ content/acs/en/education/ whatischemistry/landmarks/bakelite. htm]. 

According to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons National Clearinghouse of Plastic Surgery Procedural Statistics, there were 296,203 breast augmentation procedures and 93,083 breast reconstruction procedures performed in the United States in 2010 [ 14]. Approximately half the procedures used saline-filled implants and half used silicone gel-filled implants. The history of breast implants has been very dynamic since its introduction in 1895, and the acceptance level in society has varied with influences from the media and regulatory bodies [15]. There are two main types of breast implants 1) non-silicone shell materials, or 2) silicone elastomer shells filled with either a) silicone gel or b) saline. The historical use of these implants is described below. 

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