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Handmade - A Scientist's Search for Meaning through Making (Paperback)
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Handmade - A Scientist's Search for Meaning through Making (Paperback)
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Loot Price R356
Discovery Miles 3 560
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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 material scientist Anna Ploszajski journeys into
the domain of makers and craftspeople to comprehend how the most
popular materials really work. Anna has the fresh perspective of
someone at the forefront of the field. Each chapter features her
accounts of learning from masters of their respective crafts. Along
the way, Anna 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 blacksmith, explores how working
with the primal material, 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.
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