alexander parkes
Alexander parkes
Alexander Parkes (1813-1890) invented the first manmade plastic, Parkesine (aka synthetic ivory), in 1856. It was a form of pyroxylin (celluloid) and did not find the economical uses that its later successors, Celluloid and Xylonite, did.
Sir Henry Parkes was 80 and 11 months. he died because he was at that age when he just could not go on.He was a politician and a business man he was also known as the father of federation but sadly he died before he could see Australia became one.
Varney Parkes died in 1935.
Alexander parkes
Alexander Parkes discovered thermoplastic.
Edmund Alexander Parkes was born in 1819.
alexander parkes
Alexander parkes
Alexander Parkes
Alexander Parkes, 1855: celluloid.
Parkesine was invented in 1862 by by alexander parkes
Alexander Parkes in 1855
it was discovered by a guy named Alexander Parkes in 1862
Alexander Parkes (1813-1890) invented the first manmade plastic, Parkesine (aka synthetic ivory), in 1856. It was a form of pyroxylin (celluloid) and did not find the economical uses that its later successors, Celluloid and Xylonite, did.
By Alexander Parkes in the 1850's and it was first called Parkesine