Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Person using tool to cut plexiglass. Plexiglass, the clear acrylic material that revolutionized modern architecture and design, ...

Although chemist and inventor Otto Rohm had first come up with the idea for plexiglass in 1901, it wasn’t until 1933 that the Rohm & Haas company first introduced it to the market under the trademark ...