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Bakelite is not something baked that is light and it cannot be eaten.
Bakelite is a type of plastic material which was invented by the Belgian Leo Beakeland (1863 - 1944). Leo Beakeland went to the USA as an immigrant in 1889. He understood that the USA was a better country to make a career than Belgium. Beakeland also invented photographic printing paper, called Velox, which could be developed under artificial light. Beakeland sold his invention to the Eastman Kodak Company. With the money he earned with the selling of his invention to Kodak, he bought a laboratory in the neighbourhood of New York in Yonkers. In this laboratory Beakeland invented his new revolutionary product 'Bakelite' in 1907. Bakelite was the first synthetic plastic. This new invention of Beakeland would conquer the world in less than 15 years after 1907. Because of this invention Beakeland is seen as the father of the present plastics and plastic industry. Beakeland's own factory was taken over by Union Carbide Corp. Bakelite was a very popular trade name, just as popular as Hoover or Sellotape in the USA, but also in the rest of the world. After the invention in 1907, Bakelite was, and still is, used in thousands of products like cars, household products, radios, electricity products and so on.

Short history of different major Bakelite products invented before 1930
1912 - A Bakelite record invented by Thomas Edison. (USA)
1912 - Bakelite billiard balls invented by Hyat Burroughs. (UK)
1914 - The telephone receiver made in Bakelite by Western Electric. (USA)
1915 - Eastman Kodak camera gets a Bakelite case. (USA)
1923 - Philips radio company starts with its own Bakelite production, called Philite. (Netherlands)
1926 - First Bakelite chair.
1927 - First Philite radio speaker made by Philips. (Netherlands)