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Ploszajski, Anna.
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Materials science.
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Ploszajski, Anna.
Materials.
Materials science.
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Handmade
: a
scientist
's
search
for
meaning
through
making
/ Anna Ploszajski.
by
Ploszajski, Anna.
Bloomsbury Sigma, 2021.
Call #:
620.1101 P729h
Subjects
Materials.
Materials science.
Series
Bloomsbury sigma series.
ISBN:
9781472971074 (hc.)
Description:
320 p. : b&w ill. ; 22 cm.
Notes:
Includes index.
Summary:
"From atomic structures to theories about magnetic forces, scientific progress has given us a good grasp on the properties of many different materials. However, most scientists cannot measure the temperature of steel just by looking at it, or sculpt stone into all kinds of shapes, or know how it feels to blow up a balloon of glass.
Handmade
is the story of materials
through
making
and doing. Author and materials
scientist
Anna Ploszajski journeys into the domain of makers and craftspeople to comprehend how the most popular materials really work. With knowledge accumulated over generations
through
hands-on trial and error, these experimenters and tinkerers understand the materiality of objects far better than any
scientist
with a textbook. Anna has the fresh perspective of someone at the forefront of the field. Each chapter centres around an everyday material and features Anna'
s
accounts of learning from masters of their respective crafts. Along the way, she builds a fuller picture of materials and their place in society, as well as how they have intersected with her own life experiences - from land racing on American salt flats to swimming the English Channel. She visits a female blacksmith artist to see, hear, smell and strike steel herself, explores how working with one of the most primal of materials, clay, has brought about some of the most advanced technologies, and delves down to the atomic scale of glass to find out what makes it 'glassy'.
Handmade
affords us a new understanding of the materials we encounter every day, and an appreciation for the skills needed to fashion them into objects that are perfectly formed for the jobs they do."--From publisher.
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Essays.
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