29-05-2018, 12:43 PM
A Bush TV22 also featured in a special Bakelite collection displayed at the University of Ghent in 2007 to celebrate the centenary of Leo Baekeland's invention.
(Baekeland was born in Ghent, studied at the university and was later a professor there before emigrating to America.
Bakelite almost came about by accident after he sold the patent on printing paper he invented to Eastman on condition that he would not to do research in photography for at least 20 years. So he had to turn his inventing skills to something else!)
(Baekeland was born in Ghent, studied at the university and was later a professor there before emigrating to America.
Bakelite almost came about by accident after he sold the patent on printing paper he invented to Eastman on condition that he would not to do research in photography for at least 20 years. So he had to turn his inventing skills to something else!)
