Plastic Fantastic in the Archives! An investigation into the plastic used in 1930s leather-bound enclosures.
This is an edited version of a lightning talk presented at the New Zealand Conservators of Cultural Materials conference, Wellington 17-19 October 2016. I will first explain the logical, if somewhat tenuous, connection of this paper with the book - Plastic Fantastic: How the Biggest Fraud in Physics Shook the Scientific World. It is a