PHS

What are Plastics?

People & Polymers

Design & Manufacture

Museum

Caring for Plastics

        The museum is being re-designed to accommodate galleries of general and historical interest as well as providing showcases in which members of the PHS can display items of their own collection. There will remain a section for members of the PHS only which will contain members-specific information and a forum in which discussions can take place but this is not yet in place. 

 

 

The indices of the various books and other documents held in the  Manns-Kaufman (PHS) library  at the  IOM3 can also be accessed from this link

 

 

Foyer            REVIEW: Social attitudes towards the use of plastics in domestic         product design, 1920 to 1960.

 

Gallery 1         A record of the Conference to celebrate 100 years since Leo Baekeland      invented Bakelite and what publications are available relating to it.

Gallery 2          Fundamental information on polymers - types, trade names, trade marks and acronyms. These lists are certainly incomplete and any further contributions would be welcome

Gallery 3          A catalogue of all the articles published in Plastiquarian (with one ‘taster’ article reprinted from each volume).

Gallery 4a        A brief history of horn

               b       The story of viscose artificial silk

               c         Parkesine

               d       Cast Phenolic Resin

 

Gallery 5a        History of E Elliott Ltd

               b         Hillary Page & Kiddicraft

               c         Birkbys

 

Gallery 6a        Trading or dealing in plastics

                   b        Plastics & Perfumes

               c         The A - Z of animal napkin rings

               d         Plastics at the 1939 New York World Fair

               e         Playing with plastics