Alexander Parkes Invents First Man-Made Plastic

The first man-made plastic was unveiled by Alexander Parkes at the 1862 Great International Exhibition in London. This material - which the public dubbed Parkesine - was an organic material derived from cellulose that once heated could be molded but that retained its shape when cooled. Parkes claimed that this new material could do anything rubber was capable of, but at a lower price. He had discovered something that could be transparent as well as carved into thousands of different shapes. But Parkesine soon lost its luster, when investors pulled the plug on the product due to the high cost of the raw materials needed in its production

petrolium is the source of plastics after beeing broken down it will be mixed with chimicals at high tempreture and then we have plastics

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A guy named Bakelite created the first synthetic plastic that actually work