Handmade

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From atomic structures to theories about magnetic forces, scientific progress has given us a good understanding of the properties of many different materials. However, science can't tell us how to measure the temperature of steel just by looking at it, or how to sculpt stone into all kinds of shapes, or what it feels like to blow up a balloon of glass. Handmade tells the story of materials through making and doing.Author and material scientist Anna Ploszajski takes readers into the domain of the makers and craftspeople to understand how our most popular materials really work. Their knowledge accumulated through hands-on trial and error has been built on by generation after generation of experimenters and tinkerers. And by the end, readers will have a new understanding of the materials they encounter every day.