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32 pages
colour illustrations.
Cover: Includes projects for young engineers. Contents: What are materials? -- Properties of materials -- You're the engineer: testing properties -- Friction -- You're the engineer: racetrack friction -- Metal -- Plastic -- You're the engineer: create a new plastic -- Glass and ceramics -- You're the engineer: changing clay -- Wood and textiles -- Materials of the future -- You're the engineer: engineering structures.
Summary: Whatever engineers are designing and building, they have to think carefully about what it should be made of: wood or glass, plastic or metal, fabric or ceramic? Find out what properties help engineers make these choices and how materials are mined or made. Discover what amazing materials engineers are inventing to meet new needs -- now and in the future.
Kid engineer.