| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
291 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 288-291) and index. |
| Contents |
The ages of stone and clay -- The age of metals : a primer -- Copper and bronze -- Gold, silver, and the rise of empires -- The age of iron -- A quick history of glass -- Building for the ages -- Innovations from the East -- Stoking the furnace of capitalism -- The birth of modern metals -- Steel : master of them all -- Exploding billiard balls and other polymers -- Diamond : the superlative substance -- Composites : the lesson of nature -- The age of silicon. |
| Summary |
Sass, "shows that the story of human civilization can be read most deeply in the materials we have found or created, used or abused." |
| Subject |
Materials.
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Materials science -- History.
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Technology and civilization.
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| ISBN |
1559703717 |
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9781559703710 |
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