Talk:History of materials science

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Untitled
The 64.142.50.225 edits are mine; the stupid software logged me out yet again. Alison Chaiken 23:46, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

Needs expansion
This article deals briefly with the use of materials in prehistory (and the Roman period). It then jumps to the 20th century. At a quasi-political level, one may say that the concept of 'Materials Science' has arisen from the merger of academic departments and learned societies that separately dealt with metallurgy, and with other materials, for example the amalgamation of the Iron and Steel Institute (JISI) with other bodies successively to form the Metals Society, the Institute of Materials and most recently IOM3. In one sense the subject 'Materials Science' did not exist as a separate discipline when metallurgy, plastics, glass etc. were treated separate disciplines. At another level, it was a practical technological subject, where the theory was still running behind industrial practice until as recently as 1950. JISI was founded as far back as the 1870s, before that one can look to such people as David Mushet, who as an experimental metallurgist should certainly be regarded as a materiasl scientist. Peterkingiron 14:14, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

HIstory of silk
Some one has added a cross-reference to the History of Silk. Since Materials Science is primarily concerned with bulky materials such as metals and plastics, I would question the appropriateness of including one class of textile. It might be appropriate to have a cross-refernece to textiles generally, but if silk, why not cotton, wool, flax, hemp, etc. If they start being added this article will become unweildy and lose its main focus. Peterkingiron 22:37, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Distracting Information
The section titled "Antiquity" didn't have complete sentences, and brought up random time periods without citing the actual time periods or following any logical flow between them. The "Modern materials science" section talks about a past Penn State professor and a society from Penn State. Although it may be important to the history of materials science, it seems a little biased to not cover any other schools, programs, or professors, and it was distracting to the topic as a whole.Andrew.Jacobs (talk) 17:53, 16 February 2018 (UTC) One more thing to note is that "Antiquity" has a very broad meaning and given they manner in which this article is structured, it could be beneficial to re-name the section to Ancient History which is the period of time after Prehistory and before the Middle Ages. Wgpd4f (talk) 00:46, 23 February 2018 (UTC)

New Discoveries
There have been many more discoveries in the field of Materials Science since edits in 2007 and could be expanded on. As mentioned above, the "Modern Materials Science" section focuses on Penn State, but many other institutes have made discoveries in the field since then. It should also be noted that the Iron pillar of Delhi is not classified as steel, as stated in the last sentence of "Prehistory", but as Wrought Iron. Wgpd4f (talk) 22:26, 16 February 2018 (UTC)

Added Porcelain History
I have added a bit on history of porcelain, will expand on how ceramics have contributed to the expansion of civilization in the future.Andrew.Jacobs (talk) 22:49, 23 February 2018 (UTC)

Modern Materials Science Expansion
The first three paragraphs in this section did a nice job of explaining HOW the persons or organizations mentioned evolved materials science, so I expanded the 4th paragraph to match, and added what part of ARPA helped evolve materials science research. This section as a whole could use some additions, as there has been much more evolution in materials science since the mid-1950's. Jldgx6 (talk) 23:11, 23 February 2018 (UTC)

Rewrote the Introduction
I have expanded the introduction so that it better covers brief information on the history of materials science, how it emerged, and why it is important.Andrew.Jacobs (talk) 16:18, 6 April 2018 (UTC)

Added new sections
I have added stone age section and plan on interfrating bronze age, and revising middle ages to be better organized. Also added section headed to the introduction. Material Science as a field of study was also added with information and referencesNjanrd (talk) 16:56, 6 April 2018 (UTC)

Added Bronze section
Added a new section about the bronze age and included information of the advantages and compositio of early bronzeNjanrd (talk) 16:52, 13 April 2018 (UTC)

Expanded aluminum production history
Separated the aluminum section from 19th century developments and expanded it to contain a more comprehensive history of aluminum discovery, production and processing methods. Andrew.Jacobs (talk) 07:09, 4 May 2018 (UTC)

Antiquity and Middle Ages Expansion
No information on the development of glass technology in either section. Adding information on how glass was used and window glass was formed. Aedmv7 (talk) 16:27, 6 March 2020 (UTC)

Both sections are lacking information. I will be adding pieces of information throughout on topics such as glass, cork, and polymers. Aedmv7 (talk) 01:11, 10 April 2020 (UTC)

Antiguity Change
Concrete is a run-on within Antiquity. Added some specific to the making of concrete TrevBeuke (talk) 16:47, 6 March 2020 (UTC)TrevBeuke

Depth of Coverage
The sections "Prehistory", "Stone Age", "Bronze Age", and "Iron Age" seem short and underdeveloped. The "Iron Age" section in particular has no citations. Could these sections be expanded on and more information and references added? Ebs5kp (talk) 17:02, 25 September 2020 (UTC)