Mushandisi wemakemikari Ernest Solvay uye injiniya Zenobe Gramme (École industrielle de Liège) vakapa mazita avo kuSolvay maitiro uye Gramme dynamo, zvichiteerana, muma1860. Bakelite yakagadzirwa muna 1907-1909 naLeo Baekeland. Ernest Solvay akaitawo semunhu mukuru anobatsira uye akapa zita rayo kuSolvay Institute of Sociology, iyo Brussels School of Economics uye yeChristian Institutes for Physics and Chemistry iyo yava chikamu cheUniversité de Bruxelles. Gerardus Mercator, anatomist Andreas Vesalius, herbalist Rembert Dodoens uye nyanzvi yemasvomhu Simon Stevin pakati pevasayendisiti vane simba zvikuru.
Leo Baekeland