print email comment close History of Plastics URL: http://www.plasticsindustry.org/AboutPlastics/content.cfm?ItemNumber=670&navItemNumber=1117 Description: Overview of developments in the history of plastic manufacturing, including some of the inventors and patents related to plastic, substances (such as cellulose nitrate and formaldehyde resins), and the growth of the diversity of and uses for plastics starting during World War II. From the Society of the Plastics Industry, a plastics trade organization. Publisher: The Society of the Plastics Industry Library of Congress Subject Headings: Plastics Plastics -- History Plastics industry and trade LII Database Information: Record 20238 created by Jennifer English on 01/02/2006 Last modification on 09/18/2008 Published: 01/05/2006   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/20238