Large jewelry box. Parkesin, ivory-look plastic. (the first plastics.) Carved shape. 2 rubles. Parkesine was the trademark of the first artificial plastic ...
Large jewelry box. Parkesin, ivory-look plastic. (the first plastics.) Carved shape. 2 rubles. Parkesine was the trademark of the first artificial plastic and was made from cellulose treated with nitric acid and a solvent. Parkesine was often called artificial ivory. In 1866, Parkes created the Parkesine Company to mass produce the material. However, the company went bankrupt in 1868 due to poor product quality as Parkes tried to cut production costs. Parkesin's successor was xylonite (another name for the same material), produced by the company of Daniel Spill, a former employee of Parks, and celluloid, produced by John Wesley Hiatt. Initially, celluloid began to be used where ivory had previously been used, in particular, for the manufacture of billiard balls, piano keys, and artificial teeth. In Russia, work was also carried out to create plastics based on phenol and formaldehyde. In 1913-1914, at a silk weaving factory in the village of Dubrovka in the vicinity of Orekhov-Zuev, G. S. Petrov, together with V. I. Lisev and K. I. Tarasov, synthesized the first Russian plastic - carbolite [3] and organized its production. Carbolite gets its name from carbolic acid, another name for phenol.