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May 25, 2007

Exhibit celebrates 100 years of plastic

  • Still to come: plastic blood and airplanes that can shift shapes in flight.
    • By RAPHAEL G. SATTER
    Associated Press Writer

    LONDON — Strap on your PVC boots, hike up your nylon stockings. It's time to celebrate the 100th birthday of the world's first entirely synthetic material, one that revolutionized manufacturing, transportation, fashion and more.

    Plastic.


     
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