Leo Baekeland Quotes

Then I was president of the Bakelite Corporation from 1910 to 1930

Well, it was kind of an accident, because plastic is not what I meant to invent. I had just sold photograph paper to Eastman Kodak for 1 million dollars.

How few people will realize how much detail had to be gone into before Bakelite was a commercial success.

In 1893 I founded a chemical company which I ran until 1899.

I also served on many government committees.