Precision and accuracy are completely different concepts. Let's explore what they really mean, and how to tell the difference. 1  Resolution is the fineness to which an instrument can be read.  Precision is the fineness to which an instrument can be read repeatably and reliably.
1980s & 90s-High Performance Plastics. 1980 - First production of linear low density polyethylene. 1980 - First Blue HDPE pressure pipes for potable water introduced into UK. 1982 - First artificial heart made mainly of polyurethane, introduced implanted in a human.
The world's first fully synthetic plastic was bakelite, invented in New York in 1907 by Leo Baekeland who coined the term 'plastics'. Many chemists have contributed to the materials science of plastics, including Nobel laureate Hermann Staudinger who has been called the father of polymer chemistry and Herman Mark, known as the father of polymer physics.