I was lucky enough to meet Sarah Savioli at the Gavoi literary festival “L’Isola delle storie” which I attended with some reader friends. We didn’t know this author, she intrigued us and we went to the presentation of her latest book: “I selvatici”. I discovered that someone had written about […]
Daily Archives: September 30, 2024
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The Englishman Alexander Parkes between 1861 and 1862, while developing his studies on cellulose nitrate, isolated and patented the first semi-synthetic plastic material: Xylonite. A few years later, the American Hyatt brothers, to replace the expensive and rare ivory in the production of billiard balls, patented the celluloid formula. Bakelite, […]