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SapphireStanford University students built a satellite that would eventually become a classroom for the United States Naval Academy.
PolyethyleneIn 1898, German chemist Hans von Pechmann stumbled upon the first instance of polyethylene while investigating diazomethane, a notoriously unstable substance.
PlasticIn 1907, a chemist named Leo Baekeland stood in a laboratory in New York and created the world's first fully synthetic plastic, a material he named Bakelite.
GlassGlass is an amorphous solid, a material that defies the rigid definitions of both liquids and crystals. Unlike the atoms in a crystal, which arrange…
SlateIn February 1958, a group of students at the University of California, Berkeley, formed a political organization that would eventually dismantle the…