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Celluloid Makes Its Debut
During the latter part of the 19th century, a rush was on to find a replacement for ivory in billiards balls. The game became so popular that thousands of elephants were killed so that their valuable ivory could be obtained. John Wesley Hyatt, an American, finally came upon the solution in 1866 with celluloid. Hyatt, upon spilling a bottle of collodion in his workshop, discovered that the material congealed into a tough, flexible film.
He then produced billiard balls using collodion as a substitute for ivory. But due to its highly brittle nature, the billiard balls would shatter once they hit each other. The solution to this challenge was the addition of camphor -- a derivative of the laurel tree. This addition made celluloid the first thermoplastic: substances moulded under heat and pressure into a shape it retains even after the heat and pressure have been removed.
Celluloid went on to be used in the first flexible photographic film for still and motion pictures.
