Patentes:

1. US185928. BORING MACHINE. (2 Jan 1877). John Wesley Hyatt: https://worldwide.espacenet.com/patent/search?q=pn%3DUS185928A

2. US121522A. IMPROVEMENT IN APPARATUS FOR MOLDING DENTAL-PLATES. (5 Dez 1871). John Wesley Hyatt: https://worldwide.espacenet.com/patent/search/family/002190964/publication/US121522A?q=pn%3DUS121522A

3. US105338. IMPROVEMENT IN TREATING AND MOLDING PYROXYLINE. (12 Jul 1870). John Wesley Hyatt: https://worldwide.espacenet.com/patent/search/family/002174817/publication/US105338A?q=pn%3DUS105338A

4. US114945. IMPROVEMENT IN PROCESSES OF COATING BILLIARD-BALLS, KNIFE-HANDLES, AND OTHER ARTICLES. (16 Mai 1871). John Wesley Hyatt: https://worldwide.espacenet.com/patent/search/family/002184405/publication/US114945A?q=pn%3DUS114945A

5. US156353A. IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CELLULOID. (13 Out 1874). John Wesley Hyatt: https://worldwide.espacenet.com/patent/search/family/002225763/publication/US156353A?q=pn%3DUS156353A

Sites, artigos e livros:

1. Bellis, Mary. "A Brief History of the Invention of Plastics." ThoughtCo, Jul. 31, 2021, thoughtco.com/history-of-plastics-1992322.

2. Bellis, Mary. "The Story of Bakelite, the First Synthetic Plastic." ThoughtCo, Feb. 16, 2021, thoughtco.com/story-of-synthetic-plastic-1991672.

3. Costanza Cucci and Giovanni Bartolozzi and Veronica Marchiafava and Marcello Picollo and Emma Richardson. Study of semi-synthetic plastic objects of historic interest using non-invasive total reflectance FT-IR. Elsevier- Microchemical Journal. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.microc.2015.06.010.

4. Britannica - Nitrato de celulose ou nitrocelulose:  https://www.britannica.com/topic/industrial-polymers-468698/Cellulose-nitrate#ref608726

5. Britannica - Alexandre Parkes: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alexander-Parkes

6. Science museum group - Alexander Parkes: https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/people/ap26659/parkes-alexander

7. Brasil Escola - Alexander Parkes. Disponível em: https://brasilescola.uol.com.br/biografia/alexander-parkes.htm

8. Britannica - John Wesley Hyatt: https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Wesley-Hyatt

9. National Inventors Hall of Fame - John Wesley Hyatt: https://www.invent.org/inductees/john-wesley-hyatt#:~:text=John%20Hyatt%20invented%20the%20process,make%20it%20pliable%20for%20molding.

10. Britannica – Leo Baekeland? https://www.britannica.com/science/Bakelite

11. Britannica – celluloid: https://www.britannica.com/technology/celluloid

12. The Plastics Historical Society – celluloid: http://plastiquarian.com/?page_id=14221

13. Cellulose nitrate: https://www.britannica.com/topic/industrial-polymers-468698/Cellulose-nitrate#ref608726

14. Smithsonianmag - Once Upon a Time, Exploding Billiard Balls Were An Everyday Thing

15. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/once-upon-time-exploding-billiard-balls-were-everyday-thing-180962751/

16. Britannica – polymer: https://www.britannica.com/science/polymer

17. Helmenstine, Anne Marie, Ph.D. "What Is a Polymer?" ThoughtCo, Aug. 27, 2020, thoughtco.com/definition-of-polymer-605912.

18. Clubedaquimica -O que são polímeros naturais e sintéticos? https://clubedaquimica.com/2022/06/07/o-que-sao-polimeros-naturais-e-sinteticos/

19. Manual da química - O que são os polímeros? https://www.manualdaquimica.com/quimica-organica/o-que-sao-os-polimeros.htm

20. Helmenstine, Anne Marie, Ph.D. "Thermosetting Plastic Definition." ThoughtCo, Sep. 29, 2022, thoughtco.com/definition-of-thermosetting-plastic-605734.

21. Helmenstine, Anne Marie, Ph.D. "Como fazer nitrocelulose ou papel flash." ThoughtCo, 27 de agosto de 2020, thoughtco.com/make-nitrocelulose-or-flash-paper-608269.

22. Instituto Nacional de Câncer (INCA) Formol: https://www.gov.br/inca/pt-br/assuntos/causas-e-prevencao-do-cancer/exposicao-no-trabalho-e-no-ambiente/solventes/formol#:~:text=O%20Formalde%C3%ADdo%2C%20conhecido%20popularmente%20como,conforme%20sua%20forma%20ou%20dilui%C3%A7%C3%A3o.

23. Paula de M. Costa*, Maria I. B. Tavares. Avaliação Da Polivinilpirrolidona e do Colágeno por Ressonância Magnética Nuclear de Baixo Campo. Anais do 8 Congresso Brasileiro de Polímeros. https://www.ipen.br/biblioteca/cd/cbpol/2005/PDF/493.pdf

24. Helmenstine, Anne Marie, Ph.D. "Monomers and Polymers in Chemistry." ThoughtCo, Aug. 27, 2020, thoughtco.com/monomers-and-polymers-intro-608928.

25. SANTOS, Vanessa Sardinha dos. "Ácidos Nucleicos"; Brasil Escola. Disponível em: https://brasilescola.uol.com.br/biologia/acidos-nucleicos.htm. Acesso em 27 de novembro de 2022.

26. Khan academy - Ácidos nucleicos: https://pt.khanacademy.org/science/9-ano/vida-e-evolucao-genetica/os-acidos-nucleicos/a/nucleic-acids#:~:text=DNA%20e%20RNA%20s%C3%A3o%20pol%C3%ADmeros,%2D%20%3D%20%22muitos%22)

27. Quora- What is semi-synthetic plastic? https://www.quora.com/What-is-semi-synthetic-plastic

28. Johnson, Todd. "What Is EPS or Expanded Polystyrene?" ThoughtCo, Sep. 8, 2021, thoughtco.com/what-is-eps-expanded-polystyrene-820450.

29. Qual é o material do cabo da panela? https://www.saopaulo.sp.gov.br/sala-de-imprensa/release/tecnicas-formadas-em-etec-criam-formula-sustentavel-para-producao-de-baquelite/

Documentários:

TED-Ed - A brief history of plastic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GMbRG9CZJw

Ricardo Cuzziol - #219- Baquelite - Conheça o primeiro polímero sintético da história: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY2pZ6WvgRU

Consultas realizadas na wikipedia, com muito bom senso é claro:

1. Alexander Parkes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Parkes

2. Celulóide: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celluloid

3. Daniel Spill: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Spill

4. Christian Friedrich Schönbein: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Friedrich_Sch%C3%B6nbein

5. Albany Billiard Ball Company: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albany_Billiard_Ball_Company

6. Polyethylene terephthalate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyethylene_terephthalate

7. Polietileno: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polietileno

8. Polyethylene: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyethylene

9. PVC: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Policloreto_de_vinila

10. Poliestireno: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poliestireno

11. Fenol: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenol

12. Formaldeído: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metanal

13. Cânfora: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A2nfora

Entre tantas outras pesquisas que não lembrei de anotar aqui. Acredito que com estas referências, já consigo dar uma direcionada em quem tiver interesse de pesquisar sobre o tema.

A maioria das imagens e vídeos estão em domínio público, são autorais de Invenções na História ou são cortesia de:

1. Welcome Collection; Europeana; Wikimedia; Pexels; Library of Congress; Museums Victoria; Museon-Netherlands; Blekinge museum; Rijksmuseum; City Museum Zutphen; Swedish Air Force Museum.

2. Credit: Burroughs Wellcome & Co., factory and labs. Credit: Wellcome Collection. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Colorido por Invenções na História.

3. Louis Pasteur in his laboratory, looking through a microscope. Wood engraving by A. Marie, 1885. Credit: Wellcome Collection. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Colorido por Invenções na História.

4. Wikimedia. Nitrocellulose hexanitrate: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3e/Nitrocellulose_hexanitrate.jpg

5. Manglam Pure Camphor- 50g: https://daydiet.in/product/manglam-pure-camphor-50g/#prettyPhoto

6. Credit: A pharmaceutical business (John Bell & Co.): rooms for manufacture, dispensing, and shop. Etching by R.W. Macbeth. Wellcome Collection. Licence: Public Domain Mark. https://wellcomecollection.org/works/dkct75wf/images?id=yu8vrcs3

7. Credit: Pullman, Illinois: a panoramic view showing the factories, houses and grounds of the manufacturing city of Pullman's Palace Car Company, Chicago. Wood engraving after a drawing by W. E. Chapin, 18--. Credit: Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark: https://wellcomecollection.org/works/mkn2ehhh/images?id=yht753w4

8. Docka - 1940 - Blekinge museum, Sweden by Europeana - CC0. https://www.europeana.eu/item/916119/blm_item_21445

9. Haarkam of kam van imitatie schildpad, met een lange rij smalle tanden, taps aflopend - Rijksmuseum, Netherlands - Public Domain. https://www.europeana.eu/item/90402/BK_NM_10767_F

10. Haarkam van imitatie schildpad met opbollende, onversierde rug - Rijksmuseum, Netherlands - Public Domain. https://www.europeana.eu/item/90402/BK_1986_48_A

11. Parasol met een dek van zwarte zijden Chantillykant op een ondergrond van witte satijn, op een stok van bamboe met een imitatieschildpad knop por anonymous - 1875 - Rijksmuseum, Netherlands - Public Domain. https://www.europeana.eu/item/739/europeana_fashion_BK_16115

12. Popje por Jumeau - 1885 - City Museum Zutphen, Netherlands - Public Domain. https://www.europeana.eu/item/2021648/resource_document_collectiegelderland_MTUCV3H67YLU2ZD5Y5BJXX23NSU7BQER7Z57P5RYJ7GA423GLLAA

13. Lorgnet van imitatie schildpad met lange steel en twee monturen met verschillend geslepen glazen in een wit doosje - Rijksmuseum, Netherlands - Public Domain. https://www.europeana.eu/item/90402/BK_2008_114

14. Photo by EKATERINA  BOLOVTSOVA: https://www.pexels.com/photo/justice-figurine-on-table-6077091/

15. Photo by EKATERINA  BOLOVTSOVA: https://www.pexels.com/photo/judge-signing-on-the-papers-6077447/

16. Schönbein, Christian Friedrich - Austrian National Library, Austria - Public Domain. https://www.europeana.eu/item/92062/BibliographicResource_1000126022166

17. Gasmask - 1939 - Blekinge museum, Sweden by Europeana –(CC0). https://www.europeana.eu/item/916119/blm_item_99869

18. Coolidge & Am. Chemical Society, 4/24/24. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/item/2016848983

19. Telephone - Black Bakelite, 1960s. Source: Museums Victoria. Copyright Museums Victoria / CC BY (Licensed as Attribution 4.0 International): https://collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/items/411281

20. Photo by Suzy Hazelwood: https://www.pexels.com/photo/man-sitting-on-black-chair-grayscale-photo-1999352/

21. Photo by Little Visuals: https://www.pexels.com/photo/hand-taking-photo-photography-vintage-1836/

22. ERRES KY534 - Museon, Netherlands - CC BY. https://www.europeana.eu/item/2021657/resource_document_museon_118259

23. Museon, Netherlands - CC BY. https://www.europeana.eu/item/2021657/resource_document_museon_208050

24. Kodak Brownie 127 - Museon, Netherlands - CC BY. https://www.europeana.eu/item/2021657/resource_document_museon_89091

25. Contex by BRDR. Carlsen, Gentofte (Vervaardiger) - Museon, Netherlands - CC BY. https://www.europeana.eu/item/2021657/resource_document_museon_89084

26. Ratt - Swedish Air Force Museum, Sweden - CC BY. https://www.europeana.eu/item/916113/S_FV_object_FVM140250

27. URI-meter by AVO Ltd - Swedish Air Force Museum, Sweden - CC BY. https://www.europeana.eu/item/916113/S_FV_object_FVM123356

28. Telegrafnyckel - Swedish Air Force Museum, Sweden - CC BY. https://www.europeana.eu/item/916113/S_FV_object_FVM139609

29. Kikare by NIFE - Swedish Air Force Museum, Sweden - CC BY. https://www.europeana.eu/item/916113/S_FV_object_FVM128732

30. Hastighetsmätare by Smiths Aircraft Instruments - Swedish Air Force Museum, Sweden - CC BY. https://www.europeana.eu/item/916113/S_FV_object_FVM142819

31. Accelerometer by Nordiska Armaturfabrikerna AB (NAF) - Swedish Air Force Museum, Sweden - CC BY. https://www.europeana.eu/item/916113/S_FV_object_FVM101027

32. Photo by Tom Fisk: https://www.pexels.com/photo/drone-shot-of-landfill-3186574/

33. Photo by Pixabay: https://www.pexels.com/photo/air-bubbles-art-background-bright-531643/

34. Photo by George Becker: https://www.pexels.com/photo/two-clear-plastic-bottles-on-black-surface-122803/

35. Photo by Skyler Ewing: https://www.pexels.com/photo/close-up-of-a-santa-claus-figurine-10360587/

36. Photo by Terance Kaluthanthiri: https://www.pexels.com/photo/a-bowl-collecting-rubber-milk-9529001/

37. Photo by Anete Lusina: https://www.pexels.com/photo/crop-unrecognizable-man-working-on-modern-computer-4792724/

38. Vídeos utilizados:

39. Crédit: Aleksander Sobolewski via Wikimedia Commons. Aleksander Sobolewski by Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 Burn test of nitrocelulose. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nitrocellulose_02.ogv

40. Video by Kelly: https://www.pexels.com/video/a-plastic-bottle-on-shore-3725897/

41. Video by Matthias Groeneveld: https://www.pexels.com/video/close-up-of-a-discarded-plastic-bottle-on-the-rocky-shore-with-the-waves-breaking-in-slow-motion-3050711/

42. Video by Pavel Danilyuk: https://www.pexels.com/video/man-playing-billiards-7279167/

43. Video by Engin Akyurt: https://www.pexels.com/video/close-up-of-a-colorful-liquid-mix-in-motion-11748997/

44. Video by EKATERINA BOLOVTSOVA: https://www.pexels.com/video/female-judge-hitting-the-auction-hammer-6101343/

45. Video by Ivan Samkov: https://www.pexels.com/video/a-person-pouring-a-chemical-on-a-petri-dish-8486027/

46. Video by Thiago Zanutim Lucas: https://www.pexels.com/video/pharmaceutical-experiment-carried-out-in-laboratory-10415566/

47. Video by Tima Miroshnichenko: https://www.pexels.com/video/a-photographer-cutting-a-filmstrip-7206561/

48. Video by Tima Miroshnichenko: https://www.pexels.com/video/video-of-a-billiard-table-6254365/

49. Video by Tima Miroshnichenko: https://www.pexels.com/video/person-hitting-the-billiard-ball-using-a-cue-stick-6254508/

50. Video by Tima Miroshnichenko: https://www.pexels.com/video/close-up-video-of-a-person-playing-billiards-6253652/

51. Video by Distill: https://www.pexels.com/video/christmas-tree-852353/

52. Video by Artem Podrez from Pexels: https://www.pexels.com/video/a-man-standing-near-the-table-8534597/