Plastics

Natural Moldables, Carvables, Castables

• Wood

• Bone

• Horn

• Ivory

• Clay

• Rubber

Artificial Polymers

• Collodion (1845, Schonbein)

• Celluloid (1868, Hyatt)

Early Synthetic Polymers

• Bakelite (1906, Baekeland)

• Polystyrene (1929, IG Farben)

• Neoprene (1930, Carothers, DuPont)

• Lucite (1931, DuPont)