| 书目名称 | Ten Materials That Shaped Our World | | 编辑 | M. Grant Norton | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Exploration of the history of materials science and human society written for lay readers.Is authored by a materials scientist and based off of an Honors College course at Washington State University. | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | .This book examines ten materials—flint, clay, iron, gold, glass, cement, rubber, polyethylene, aluminum, and silicon—explaining how they formed, how we discovered them, why they have the properties they do, and how they have transformed our lives. Since the dawn of the Stone Age, we have shaped materials to meet our needs and, in turn, those materials have shaped us..The fracturing of flint created sharp, curved surfaces that gave our ancestors an evolutionary edge. Molding clay and then baking it in the sun produced a means of recording the written word and exemplified human artistic imagination. As our ability to control heat improved, earthenware became stoneware and eventually porcelain, the most prized ceramic of all. Iron cast at high temperatures formed the components needed for steam engines, locomotives, and power looms—the tools of the Industrial Revolution. Gold has captivated humans for thousands of years and has recently found important uses in biology, medicine,and nanotechnology. Glass shaped into early and imperfect lenses not only revealed the microscopic world of cells and crystals, but also allowed us to discover stars and planets beyond those visible with the n | | 出版日期 | Book 2021 | | 关键词 | History of Materials; Materials Discovery; Evolution of Materials; Materials and Society; Societal Impac | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75213-2 | | isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-75212-5 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-75213-2 | | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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