| Brian caught his first fish, a gudgeon, from the river Tees as a young boy in the 1940's fishing with a Bakelite float. |
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| Salter vintage Salter vintage bakelite bakelite mechanical mechanical scales scales, Argos. |
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| For adults, topical gifts included steel or Bakelite helmets, and gas mask cases in Rexine or leather. |
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| He is, after all, talking into a heavy, black, old, Bakelite telephone handset, with a thick coiled cord leading into his pocket. |
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| The first synthetic polymer produced by a condensation reaction was Bakelite. |
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| Also, items made of the wartime plastic-like Bakelite material had passed the underwater test of time in very good condition. |
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| For example, the major raw material of Bakelite is coal tar, which was a waste product from the making of coke from coal. |
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| In dramatic contrast to the black terrazzo floor, the table has a white Bakelite top set on columnar chromium-steel legs. |
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| If you can't hear in that the tintinnabulation of heaven, then you have a J-cloth ear and a Bakelite soul. |
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| If your socket is brown Bakelite plastic, it will normally unscrew into 2 halves. |
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| If you warm it up, Bakelite smells of the carbolic acid and formaldehyde that goes into its making. |
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| In third grade, he sold stink bombs to his classmates so that he could buy his first still camera, a Bakelite Univex, for 39 cents. |
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| There's a plastic railway buffet display unit for sandwiches on the worktop, genuine adverts, circa 1962, for Hoovers on the walls, and a Bakelite radio on the windowsill. |
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| It is believed the press was originally purchased to mold Bakelite components. |
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| By the 1920s and 1930s, costume jewellery was utilising new materials such as the early plastics Bakelite, Celluloid and Galalith. |
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| The pickguard on the instrument is true fiber Bakelite, varnished to an ultra-high gloss and crafted from a direct trace of a 1950 Broadcaster. |
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| Bakelite was invented and patented in 1907 by the chemist Leo Baekeland, who also called it phenol-formaldehyde polymer or phenolic resin. |
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| Alex Rich, Coventry A Your item is probably the wonderful Bush TV22, which was the pinnacle of Bakelite television design. |
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| Other jet lookalikes include cannel coal, Irish bog oak and, in the 20th century, Bakelite and other kinds of plastic. |
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| Billiard balls have been made from many different materials since the start of the game, including clay, bakelite, celluloid, crystallite, ivory, plastic, steel and wood. |
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| Bakelite makes phenolic and epoxy resins and phenolic molding compounds. |
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| Other landmarks named through the program have been the invention of Bakelite, the discovery of penicillin and the development of Tide laundry detergent. |
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