“That was the beginning of my career as a chemist-inventor. I made so many foolish mistakes that I finally was compelled to find a better way of doing things.”

About Leo Baekeland

Inventor • Belgian-American

Leo Baekeland was a Belgian-born American chemist and inventor who made significant contributions to the fields of photography and plastics. He is best known for inventing Velox photographic paper in 1893 and, most...