American Plastic: A Cultural History
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Winner of the 1996 Dexter Prize from the Society for the History of Technology and a 1996 Choice Outstanding Academic Book "A splendid history of plastic. The book is authoritative, thorough, interdisciplinary, and intriguing. . . [Meikle] traces the course of plastics from 19th-century celluloid and the fist wholly synthetic bakelite, in 1907, through the proliferation of compounds (vinyls, acrylics, polystyrene, nylon, etc.) and recent ecological...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:081352234X
ISBN13:9780813522340
Release Date:December 1995
Publisher:Rutgers University Press
Length:424 Pages
Weight:2.65 lbs.
Dimensions:1.2" x 7.3" x 10.3"
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