Crossword clues for bakelite
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bakelite \Bakelite\ n. a thermosetting plastic used in electric insulators and for making plastic ware and telephone receivers etc. [trademark]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
type of plastic widely used early 20c., 1909, from German Bakelit, named for Belgian-born U.S. physicist Leo Baekeland (1863-1944), who invented it. Originally a proprietary name, it is formed by the condensation of a phenol with an aldehyde.
Wikipedia
Bakelite ( , sometimes spelled Baekelite), or polyoxybenzylmethylenglycolanhydride, is an early plastic. It is a thermosetting phenol formaldehyde resin, formed from a condensation reaction of phenol with formaldehyde. It was developed by the Belgian-American chemist Leo Baekeland in New York in 1907.
One of the first plastics made from synthetic components, Bakelite was used for its electrical nonconductivity and heat-resistant properties in electrical insulators, radio and telephone casings and such diverse products as kitchenware, jewelry, pipe stems, children's toys, and firearms. The " retro" appeal of old Bakelite products has made them collectible.
Bakelite was designated a National Historic Chemical Landmark on November 9, 1993 by the American Chemical Society in recognition of its significance as the world's first synthetic plastic.
Usage examples of "bakelite".
Anji spotted several televisions flickering amidst the mess, each one an old valve job with a Bakelite casing and bulging screen.
Soloflex machine, a grubby pink Epilady leg razor, a Bakelite coffee carafe.
They were the usual wireless fitments, bakelite knobs fitting snugly to the steel shafts that projected from the front panel.
It looked like a sculpture collection of Bakelite canisters and wooden boxes.
Jigsaws, cards, roulette counters, poker chips, spillikins, marbles, yarrow stalks, dice, jacks, Trivial Pursuit wedges, bridge score-sheets, discarded Pictionary doodles, Scrabble tiles, bits of unidentifiable plastic and shards of bakelite, wood and metal formed a jumbled compost capable of engaging a dedicated housekeeper for several months of full-time sifting, cataloguing and sorting into the correct boxes.
Her jewelry was Bakelite, two chunky bracelets that clattered on her narrow wrist.
Neal fishes a Bakelite ocarina out of his shirt pocket and tootles a thin, horrible note.
All around the bed were more bookcase-crates, filled with paperbacks and old hardcover books, and on top of most of the crates were radios: clunky 1960 transistor radios, complicated receivers obviously made from kits, simple crystal sets, several Bakelite 1950s models, and even a huge Philco floor radio against the wall near the foot of the bed.
Her jewelry was Bakelite, two chunky bracelets that clattered on her narrow wrist.
The bakelite splintered obligingly, then retaliated with an electric shock.
The barman reached under the pumps and stuck a bakelite telephone on the bar.
When I had begun to despair of ever keeping her running, or ever getting her out of the back yard on her own power, I found that the firing order was wired up wrong, and after fixing that, I found that a lubricant with graphite in it had hardened on the bakelite outside of the distributor cap and some of the impulses were shorting down the outside of the cap.
Apart from the dead men the only other objects in that cave were the light fitting and the light switch, and both were made of bakelite.
George followed Ruth through the door and made for the table where the old-fashioned black Bakelite phone squatted on a piecrust table next to a wedding photograph of a radiant Ruth with her new husband.
It was then that I caught sight of the small push-pull switch just beyond the key on the bakelite transmitter.