Kleine Geschichte der Kunststoffe

The short history of plastics is a big one, for all those interested in the origins of plastics and the development of this class of materials to its current importance. The book offers just the right mixture of technical and non-fiction book and is therefore suitable for engineers as well as art students. The entire history of plastics is presented for the first time from the historical development of this youngest class of materials from antiquity to the present. After a short introduction to the basic concepts and the emergence of plastics, the epochs of plastics history from prehistoric times to the present and the most important technically used products created in the process are described, taking into account social and technical history. A chronological table with the most important dates and names in the history of plastics makes a good one possible.