Who invented plastic?

Question

Who invented plastic?

Answer 1

What can be classified as the first plastic would be vulcanized rubber invented by BF Goodrich.

Answer 2

The first man-made plastic was created by Alexander Parkes who publicly demonstrated it at the 1862 Great International Exhibition in London. The material called Parkesine was an organic material derived from cellulose that once heated could be molded, and retained its shape when cooled.

Answer 3

"John Wesley Hyatt, 1837--1920, an American, used refined celluloid to make the first practical synthetic plastic."

Answer 4

It became popular in the 1920s and 30s as 'art deco' and is now seen as a 'part eco' problem.

"John Wesley Hyatt, 1837--1920, an American, used refined celluloid to make the first practical synthetic plastic."  

--quote from MSN's Encarta--

Answer 5

God

Answer 6

~English inventor created the earliest form of plastic in 1855. He mixed pyroxylin, a partially nitrated form of cellulose with alcohol and camphor. This produced a hard but flexible transparent material.

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The first plastic based on a synthetic polymer was made from phenol and formaldehyde, with the first viable and cheap synthesis methods invented by Leo Hendrik Baekeland in 1909...

Answer 7

ME

Answer 8

I did j.k., i really don't know.... that is a odd question.