stackyFACTSBefore we polluted the oceans with petroleum products, we were just modifying cotton. The very first engineered polymer, celluloid, was derived from plant fibers. It was highly moldable, beautifully transparent, and wildly flammable, occasionally causing early billiard balls to randomly combust on impact.
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The glowing aesthetic of every late-night diner was born in 1910. A French engineer trapped noble gases in a glass tube and ran a current through them,…
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Vincent van Gogh's desperate search for internal peace took incredibly strange, highly toxic turns. Believing that the bright yellow paint he used on canvases…
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