Greatest Engineering Achievements - #20 High-performance Materials
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| Audience/Grade: | High School Junior -Continuing Education 11-Continuing Education |
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Ceramic Engineering Engineering Mechanics Entrepreneurship and Innovation General Engineering, Engineering Science History of Science and Technology Manufacturing Engineering Materials Engineering Mechanical Engineering Technology and Society |
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Organization:National Academy of Engineering - NAE |
| Description: | Part of the National Academy of Engineering's site of the top 20 greatest engineering achievements of the Twentieth Century. High-performance materials are listed as #20 in impact. The site has a timeline and an essay by Mary L. Good, as well as resources on metals, polymers, ceramics and composites. "All hail, King Steel," wrote Andrew Carnegie in a 1901 paean to the monarch of metals, praising it for working "wonders upon the earth." A few decades earlier a British inventor named Henry Bessemer had figured out how to make steel in large quantities, and Carnegie and other industry titans were now producing millions of tons of it each year, to be used for the structural framing of bridges and skyscrapers, the tracks of sprawling railway networks, the ribs and plates of steamship hulls, and a multitude of other applications extending from food cans to road signs." |
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| Keywords: | Mary L. Good Mary Good metals polymers ceramics and composites. |
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Greatest Engineering Achievements of the 20th Century |
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Great site to show the engineering behind everyday products and systems. |
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Very easy |
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Low |
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| Publication Date: | December 2009 |
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WWW |
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Free |
| Download URL: | http://www.greatachievements.org/?id=2968 |
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IEEE LOM Record |
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