Historical place archive

Yonkers in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at Yonkers in United States of America. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

2 records2 event labels1 people1907–1907

Historical events in Yonkers

1907

1907
Bakelite
Leo Hendrik Baekeland · Technology

Creates a heat-resistant synthetic resin later named Bakelite.

1907
First Fully Synthetic Plastic
Leo Hendrik Baekeland · Technology

Introduces a mouldable electrical insulator suited to mass manufacturing.

Provenance

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