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 first plastic based on a synthetic polymer was made from phenol and formaldehyde, with the first viable and cheap synthesis methods invented in 1907, by Leo Hendrik Baekeland, a Belgian-born American living in New York state.