Category:Materials
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Various types of materials such as films, fluids, oils and solids
Subcategories
- Aggregates & resists
- Amorphous materials
- Biological & biomedical materials
- Composite materials
- Crystalline materials
- Films
- Fluids
- Mesoporous materials
- Metamaterials
- Oils
- Optical materials
- Organic inorganic hybrid materials
- Phase change materials
- Photoconducting materials
- Polymers
- Radioactive materials
- Raw materials
- Resins
- Solids
- Waste materials
Subcategories
This category has the following 44 subcategories, out of 44 total.
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Pages in category "Materials"
The following 546 pages are in this category, out of 546 total.
A
- Archives:A Decade of Expansion at Bethlehem's Sparrow's Point Plant
- A Handbook of Chemical Engineering
- Archives:A History of Mining in Japan
- First-Hand:A Life in Wire and Cable Engineering
- Archives:A Mining Engineer at Col di Lana
- Archives:A Survey of MOS Process Technologies
- Archives:A Survey of Photosensitive Materials and Devices
- A.A. Griffith publishes The Phenomenon of Rupture and Flow in Solids
- Oral-History:Willis Adcock
- Agricola Publishes De Re Metallica
- Oral-History:AIME and Its Member Societies: AIST, SME, SPE, and TMS
- Air and Rain
- Archives:AISE Through the Years
- Albert Sauveur publishes Metallography and Heat Treatment of Iron and Steel
- George E. Alcorn
- Oral-History:Alex Scott
- Andrea Alù
- Archives:Ampacity of Buried Underground Distribution Cables
- First-Hand:An Eclectic Electrical Engineer
- Anton van Leeuwenhoek Develops Optical Microscopy
- Oral-History:Diran Apelian
- Oral-History:Frank F. Aplan
- Arne Olander discovers the shape-memory effect in an alloy of gold and cadmium
- Arnold Sommerfeld develops the free-electron theory of metals
- Oral-History:Eric Ash
- Asphalt-water Emulsion Soil Barriers
- Audemars Patents “Artificial Silk"
- Automotive Catalytic Converters
- Hertha Ayrton
B
- Bakelite
- Oral-History:Jack Balde
- Oral-History:Christopher Bale
- John Bardeen
- Bardeen, Brattain, Shockley invent the transistor
- Barrel Boring
- Batteries
- First-Hand:Beginning of the Silicon Age
- Bell Solar Battery unveiled
- William H. Bentley, Jr.
- Bessemer patents a bottom-blown acid process for melting low-carbon iron
- Oral-History:Betty Gibbs
- Oral-History:Harry Bhadeshia
- Oral-History:Roshan Bhappu
- Bill Jack Scientific Instruments
- Oral-History:Bill Langer
- Bill Pfann invents zone refining
- Gerd Binnig
- Biringuccio Publishes De La Pirotechnia
- Willem Boone
- Oral-History:Berthold Bosch
- Jagadish Chandra Bose
- Boundary Layer Between Surfaces and Moving Fluids
- Oral-History:James Boyd
- Brinell develops a test to estimate the hardness of metals
- Bromine Extraction
- Walter L. Brown
- Discovering the Buckyball
- Buckyballs and Nanotubes
- Building Blocks of Nanotechology
- Dennis D. Buss
- Butyl Rubber
C
- Archives:WT Glover Electric Wires Cables
- Cabs and Canopies
- Melvin Calvin
- Cambridge Instruments introduces a commercial scanning electron microscope
- Carbon-free Processes
- David E. Carlson
- CAT, MRI, and Ultrasound
- Catalysis
- Archives:A Century of Electricals
- Edwin A. Chandross
- Praveen Chaudhari
- Chemical Engineering
- Chemical Engineers of the Foundation Era
- Oral-History:Li-Chyong Chen
- Anne Chiang
- Chromatography
- Chromium Plating
- Alan G. Chynoweth
- Oral-History:John Clarke
- Archives:Coal Through the Ages
- Oral-History:Harry M. Conger, III
- Continuous Catalytic Cracking
- Continuous Thermal Cracking
- Continuous-flow Stirred-tank Plug-flow Equations
- Conversion of Aniline
- Conversion of Natural Gas to Methanol
- Cordura
- Cornelius H. Keller patents alkyl xanthates sulfide collectors
- Crafting of the First Porcelain
- Creation of an artifact of long-standing materials science and archaeological intrigue
- Creation of superconducting yttrium-barium-copper oxide ceramic
- Jerome J. Cuomo
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- Daniell Cell
- Darby discovers that coke can effectively replace charcoal in a blast furnace for iron smelting
- Davisson and Germer confirm wave nature of electron
- Dealing With an Ever-More-Crowded Environment
- Archives:Defect Chemistry and Injection Electroluminescence in Wide Band-Gap II-IV Compounds
- Definition of Chemical Engineering
- Delivering New Medicines and Healthcare Options
- Oral-History:Stanley Dempsey
- Dendrimers
- Development Dental Amalgam
- Development of Bakelite
- Development of bioactive glass for orthopedic use
- Development of Crucible Steel Making
- Development of Ductile Tungsten
- Development of Glass Blowing
- Development of Iron Casting
- Development of Iron Wire Rope
- Development of Lost-wax Casting
- Development of Metals Processing Method for Separating Silver from Lead and Copper
- Development of the Alloying Compositions of the First Stainless Steels.
- Development of the process of electrolysis to separate elemental metals from salts
- Development of the Siemens-Martin Open-hearth Furnace Process
- Archives:Developments in the Iron and Steel Industry During 1948
- IEEE Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation Society History
- Diffuse streaking in age-hardened aluminum-copper alloys observed
- Digh Hisamoto
- Diode
- Dipping Needle
- Directionally solidified columnar-grained turbine blade developed
- Discovery of buckyballs
- Discovery of Diffraction of X-rays by Crystals
- Discovery of electrically conducting organic polymers
- Discovery of Extractive Metallurgy
- Discovery of magneto-crystalline anisotropy in rare-earth cobalt intermetallic compounds
- Discovery of Mass-2 Hydrogen
- Discovery of nanotubes
- Discovery of process to transform glass objects into fine-grained ceramics
- Discovery of Superconductivity at Very Low Temperatures
- Discovery of the electrolytic reduction of alumina into aluminum
- Discovery of the Precipitation Hardening of Aluminum Alloys.
- Dislocations in materials verified
- Disposable Paper Diaper
- Dissolvable Plastic Wafers
- Dow Receives First Patent
- Oral-History:Fiona M. Doyle
- K. Eric Drexler
- Dry Cell Battery
- Oral-History:Bonnie Dunbar
- Floyd Dunn
- Louis Dunoyer
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- Earliest Fired Ceramics
- Earliest Form of Metallurgy
- Daniel C. Edelstein
- Edison and Ore Refining
- Edison Effect
- Edison's Alkaline Battery
- Don Eigler
- Oral-History:Eiichi Fukada
- Electric cap lamp approved by U.S. Bureau of Mines
- Electric Meter
- Electrically Powered Ventilation Fans
- Electrolytic Reduction of Aluminum
- Electromagnetic Teleclinometer
- Electromagnetism
- Energy Efficient Synthetic Motor Oil
- Oral-History:Ruth Engel
- Enriched Uranium
- Leo Esaki
- T.J. Ess
- Ethanol
- Ether as Surgical Anesthetic
- Thomas E. Everhart
- Explosives Plant on Brandywine River
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- Federico Faggin
- Oral-History:Federico Faggin
- Oral-History:Tom Falkie
- James Fergason
- Milestones:Development of Ferrite Materials and Their Applications, 1930-1945
- Ferrites
- Archives:Ferrous Metallurgy: Past, Present, and Future Developments
- Richard Feynman
- Richard Feynman and Micromachines
- Oral-History:Bernard Finn
- First artificial diamonds by using high heat and pressure produced
- First careful definition of stress as the load per unit area of the cross section of a material
- First Glue Patent Issued
- First operating liquid crystal displays
- Milestones:First Practical Photovoltaic Solar Cell
- First Production of Bronze
- First Smelting of Iron
- First-generation Alkyl Metal Catalysts
- Oral-History:Steward Flaschen
- Oral-History:Merton C. Flemings
- FLIT
- Fluid-bed Catalytic Process
- Forerunners of Chemical Engineering
- Oral-History:Ted Foster
- Fractionating Bubble Tower
- Benjamin Franklin's Electric Motor
- Philip J . Franklin
- French Telegraph Cable of 1898
- Fried Bacon Analog
- Oral-History:Robert Friedel
- William C. Friesel
- Fritz Pfleumer patents magnetic tape
- Oral-History:Tetsuo Fujimura
- Fulmer Research Institute
- Oral-History:Bert Fung
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- Galileo publishes Della Scienza Mechanica
- Galvani and the Frankenstein Story
- Oral-History:Robert Galvin
- Richard J. Gambino
- Oral-History:Karl Ganzhorn
- Gas-Liquid Relationships
- Oral-History:Paolo Gazzana-Priaroggia
- Gibbs publishes "On the Equilibrium of Heterogeneous Substances."
- Oral-History:Joseph Giordmaine
- Oral-History:Mike Glazer
- Oral-History:Adolf Goetzberger
- Gold-silicon alloy that remains amorphous at room temperature developed
- Goodyear Invents the Vulcanization of Rubber
- Oral-History:Eugene Gordon
- Gordon-Aerolite developed
- Gravity pendulum
- Oral-History:William Gretsch
- Alfred Grill
- Andrew S. Grove
- Milestones:Grumman Lunar Module, 1962-1972
- Gutenberg Devises a Lead-Tin-Antimony Alloy
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- Patrick E. Haggerty
- Hahn and Strassmann split the nucleus of a uranium atom
- Oral-History:Carolyn Hansson
- Oral-History:Hardarshan Singh Valia
- Oral-History:Charles Harper
- James S. Harris, Jr.
- Oral-History:John F. Havard
- Oral-History:Peter C. Hayes
- First-Hand:Heat Losses in Isolated-Phase Bus Enclosures
- Heat-transfer Relationships
- Oral-History:Siegfried S. Hecker
- George H. Heilmeier
- Heisenberg and Schrödinger develop quantum mechanics
- Raymond A. Heising
- Wolfgang Helfrich
- Hematology and Chemotherapy
- Hermann Staudinger publishes on polymers
- High-energy Lithium Batteries
- High-octane Gasoline
- Hindered Amines
- Hippel publishes Molecular Science and Molecular Engineering
- First-Hand:History of an ASEE Fellow (Kanti Prasad)
- Martin Hochstadter
- Oral-History:Wallace Hoff
- Hollow-fiber Reverse-osmosis Membranes
- Oral-History:Nick Holonyak
- Nick Holonyak, Jr.
- Oral-History:Stanley M. Howard
- C-K Hu
- Hydrofining
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- IBM spelled with scanning tunneling electron microscope
- Oral-History:IEEE Council on Superconductivity Interviews
- Sumio Iijima
- Induction Ring
- Industrial Synthetic Diamonds
- Archives:Infrared - The New Dimension for Electronics and Materials Evaluation
- Initiation of the use of microscopy to identify the crystal structures in metals
- Invention of Electroplating
- Invention of Kevlar
- Invention of Modern Concrete
- Isolation of Elemental Aluminum
- Isopropyl Alcohol
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- Archives:J.K. Brimacombe - Reflections and Perspectives, 2000
- Jan Czochralski publishes A New Method for the Measurement of the Crystallization Rate of Metals
- Archives:Technological Strength Needs and Feeds a New Research Infrastructure in Japan
- Oral-History:George A. Jedenoff
- Jet Fuel
- John B. Tytus invents continuous hot-strip rolling of steel
- Oral-History:John Murphy
- Bill Joy
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- Thomas Kailath
- Oral-History:Ki Dong Kang
- Oral-History:Charles Kao
- Karl Schroter invents cemented carbides
- Oral-History:J. Lawrence Katz
- John F. Kelly
- Thomas Kenny
- Oral-History:Makoto Kikuchi
- Oral-History:Jack Kilby
- Oral-History:Dieter Kind
- Kinetic Theory of Gases
- Oral-History:Alex King
- Knoll and Ruska build the first transmission electron microscope
- Oral-History:Richard Koch
- Oral-History:Herwig Kogelnik
- Oral-History:Hans Kretz
- Oral-History:Herbert Kroemer
- Herbert Kroemer
- Oral-History:Ihor A. Kunasz
- Stephanie Kwolek
- Oral-History:Yoshihiro Kyotani
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- Rolf Landauer
- Oral-History:Jay Lathrop
- Law of Gas Diffusion Across Membranes
- Oral-History:J. Kwon Lee
- Oral-History:Leonard Harris
- Oral-History:Humboldt W. Leverenz
- Michal Lipson
- Liquefied Natural Gas Transport
- T.B. Little
- Living Better Through Chemistry and Plastics
- Oral-History:Antonio Luque Lopez
- Low-sudsing Washing Machine Detergent
- Low-temperature Lube Oils
- Oral-History:Raymond L. Lowrie
- Oral-History:George Luxbacher
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- Magnetic Tape
- Making Food More Available and Convenient
- Manhès constructs the first working converter for copper matte
- Manufacture of Gelatin
- Manufacturing Products in Profusion
- Warren Mason
- Oral-History:Warren P. Mason
- Mathematical Basis for Distillation
- Augustus Matthiessen
- Oral-History:Joseph Maxfield
- Oral-History:Ronald McFarlan
- Oral-History:Alexander McLean
- Meat Flavored Protein
- Ralph Merkle
- Oral-History:Edward Merrill
- Oral-History:David G. Messerschmitt
- Archives:Metallurgical Reminiscences
- Early Microelectronics
- Archives:The Social Construction of the Microprocessor A Japanese and American Story
- Milk Quality Tester
- Jack O. Miller
- Archives:NIOSH Article: A Century of Mining Safety and Health Research
- MIT Course X
- John L. Moll
- Oral-History:John Moll
- Gordon E. Moore
- Oral-History:Gordon Earl Moore
- Oral-History:Fusao Mori
- Oral-History:Charles W. Mueller
- Multi-grade All-season Motor Oil
- Multi-phase Chemical Systems Analysis
- Multiple-Effect Vacuum Process for Producing Sugar
- First-Hand:My Life Over 60 Years in the Development of Our National Energy Systems
- Mylar
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- Oral-History:Tsuneo Nakahara
- Nanoelectronics
- NanoInk
- Nanomedicine
- Nanotechnology
- IEEE Nanotechnology Council History
- National Nanotechnology Initiative
- Walther Nernst
- Henry T. Nicholas, III
- Nick Holonyak, Jr., develops the first practical visible-spectrum light-emitting diode
- Niels Bohr publishes model of atomic structure
- Oral-History:Kazuhiko Nishi
- Nobel Patents Dynamite
- Daniel Noble
- Non-toxic Oil-based Plant and Insect Spray
- Oral-History:Robert N. Noyce
- Robert Noyce
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- P- and n-type regions in silicon discovered
- Parabolic Mirror Concentrators for Dyeing Cloth
- Paul Merica patents the first superalloy
- Oral-History:Harold W. Paxton
- Peanut Butter
- Oral-History:Aage Pedersen
- Oral-History:Arthur D. Pelton
- Penicillin
- Oral-History:Nicholas Peppas
- Oral-History:Vincent Perry
- Oral-History:Richard Petritz
- Petroleum Engineering
- Petroleum Storage Tanks
- Pierre and Marie Curie Discover Radioactivity
- Plastic deformation of ductile materials proposed
- Plexiglas
- Polyamide Nylon 66
- Polybenzimidazole Fibers
- Polyester
- Polymer nylon patented
- Polystyrene
- Portable Patient Dialysis Machine
- Potter develops the flotation process to separate metallic sulfide minerals from otherwise unusable minerals
- Oral-History:Robert Pound
- Pressure Swing Adsorption
- Joseph Priestley
- Process for obtaining high-purity uranium from uranium halides developed
- Processing Sulfur-Containing Fuels
- Production of photonic crystals
- Oral-History:Walter Proebster
- Pump Jacks
- Oral-History:Edward Purcell
- Pyrex
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- Libby Develops Radiocarbon Dating
- Oral-History:Raja V. Ramani
- Oral-History:Madhu G. Ranade
- Oral-History:Buddy Ratner
- Reaction Injection Molding
- Oral-History:Robert Rediker
- Thomas Boverton Redwood
- Oral-History:John M. Reid
- Relationship Between Advection to Diffusion
- Relationship Between Gas Diffusion and Density
- Reproducing Colors Photographically
- Oral-History:Heidi Ries
- James N. Riess
- Oral-History:Robert C. Freas
- Roberts-Austen develops the phase diagram for iron and carbon
- Preston Robinson
- John Augustus Roebling
- Heinrich Rohrer
- Lubomyr T. Romankiw
- Albert Rose
- Ian M. Ross
- Harris Ryan
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- Oral-History:Shoichi Saba
- Oral-History:John Saby
- Oral-History:Donald R. Sadoway
- Oral-History:Tadashi Sasaki
- Scattering of Electromagnetic Radiation
- Martin Schadt
- Schmid and Boas publish Kristallplastizitaet
- Archives:Working to Establish a New Discipline: Herman P. Schwan and the Roots of Biomedical Engineering
- Oral-History:James F. Scott
- Glenn T. Seaborg
- Nadrian Seeman
- Oral-History:Lee Semiatin
- Archives:A Review of UK Government Involvement in the Field of Semiconductor Technology Within the Research Establishments
- Archives:Diversity, Complementarity, and Cooperation Materials Innovation in the Semiconductor Industry
- Semiconductors
- Archives:From Germanium to Silicon, A History of Change in the Technology of the Semiconductors
- First-Hand:Serendipity and Superconducting Magnets
- Oral-History:Ken'ichi Shinoda
- Oral-History:Robert S. Shoemaker
- Oral-History:Ralph M. Showers
- Oral-History:Robert D. Shull
- Siegfried Junghans perfects continuous casting of nonferrous metal
- Siemens patents the arc-type electric furnace
- Silicone Elastomers
- Richard Skalak
- Skeggs Leonards Artificial Kidney
- Slips and Jars
- Slow-release Fertilizer for Bio-remediation
- Richard E. Smalley
- Oral-History:George E. Smith
- Oral-History:Raymond L. Smith
- Smokeless Gunpowder
- Soda Ash From Common Salt
- Soda Bottles
- Solvay Process for Manufacturing Soda Ash
- Sorby uses light microscopy to reveal the microstructure of steel
- Sprague Electric Company
- Spring Poles
- Stainless Steel
- First-Hand:Start of epitaxial growth at Texas Instruments
- Archives:State of the Art of Thermionics
- Steam Cracking
- Oral-History:Earl Steele
- Oral-History:Karl Ulrich Stein
- Oral-History:Michael J. Strelbisky
- Stretching Resources
- Oral-History:Virginia Powell Strong
- Styrofoam
- Oral-History:Takuo Sugano
- Oral-History:Guy Suits
- Sunscreens
- IEEE Council on SuperConductivity History
- Superconductors
- Superinsulators
- Roger A. Sykes
- Synthetic Fuels
- Synthetic Jet and Turbo-prop Aircraft Engine Lubricants
- Synthetic Molecular Sieve Zeolite
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- First-Hand:Tales from The Steel
- Oral-History:Morris Tanenbaum
- Albert H. Taylor
- Archives:Finding the Right Material: Gordon Teal as Inventor and Manager
- Oral-History:Gordon K. Teal
- Gordon Teal
- Oral-History:Richard "Dick" Teets
- Teflon
- Oral-History:Thaddeus Massalski
- Archives:The 1980’s—Hard Times with a Golden Lining
- First-Hand:The Birth of Glow Discharge Chemistry (aka PECVD)
- Archives:The History of Iron and Steelmaking in the United States
- Archives:The History of Zinc Mining in Friedensville, Pennsylvania
- The Invention of Glass
- Archives:The Original Steelmakers
- Theory of Boundary Layers
- Thermal Cracking
- Thermoplastic Polycarbonates
- Thermoplastics
- Thin Film Deposition Technologies
- Thomas Edison's Gamble with Resource Extraction
- Oral-History:Matthew Tirrell
- Titusville, PA Oil Well
- Archives:Top Ten Lists for Metallurgical and Mineral Processing Engineers
- Torsion Balance
- Oral-History:Toshio Mitsui
- John Totter
- Transcontinental Telegraph Line (U.S.)
- Bell Demonstrates Transistor
- Transistors
- Archives:Minority Carriers and the First Two Transistors
- Transitions from Laminar to Turbulent Flow
- Oral-History:Edward Tudor
- Tungsten Powder Metallurgy
- Tunnel Diode
- Donald Tuomi
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- Oral-History:Glen Wade
- Waldo Lonsbury Semon invents PVC
- Walking Beams
- Waterproofing Using India Rubber
- Oral-History:Roger Webster
- Oral-History:Paul K. Weimer
- Oral-History:Walter Welkowitz
- Well Logging
- Charles Samuel West
- Oral-History:Marvin White
- John Whitehead
- Willis R. Whitney
- Brent Wiley
- Wilhelm Kroll develops an economical process for titanium extraction
- Kimball Williams
- Wire Drawing and Bridges
- Oral-History:Roy Woodall
- Oral-History:Victor Wouk
- Christopher R. Wronski
Media in category "Materials"
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