Materials -- History

Active materials

by Bredekamp, Horst, Kammer, Stephan, Shepherd, Robert, Wolfe, Charles T., Speck, Thomas, Krauthausen, Karin, Aizenberg, Joanna, Correll, Nikolaus, Dheur, Sonia, Dunlop, John, Gholami, Mohammad Fardin, Golestanian, Ramin, Guiducci, Lorenzo, Jany, Susanne, Kleiman-Lafon, Sylvie, Lallemand, Ianis, Mazzolai, Barbara, Razghandi, Khashayar, Saupe, Sven J., Joanny, Jean-François

fromDe Gruyter STEM

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What are active materials? This book aims to introduce and redefine conceptions of matter by considering materials as entities that 'sense' and respond to their environment. By examining the modeling of, the experiments on, and the construction of these materials, and by develop…

Menschen und ihre Materialien: Von der Steinzeit bis heute

by Kricheldorf, Hans Rytger

fromErlebnis Wissenschaft

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Was verändert die Welt?Wer hat denn nun die Welt am stärksten verändert: die Politiker, die Ideen in die Tat umsetzten, oder die Philosophen, von denen siestammten? Oder vielleicht sogar jemand ganz anderes? Etwa der Erfi nder des Papiers, ohne das weder Buchdruck noch Reformati…

Ten materials that shaped our world

by Norton, M. Grant

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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…

Ten materials that shaped our world

by Norton, M. Grant

0 Type: Book

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…