Materials through the ages

Hold That Thought by Washington University in St. Louis

Sep 27, 201800:08:29Science & Medicine

Over thousands of years, by trial and error, humankind has learned how to produce superior materials for different types of processing. Physicist Ken Kelton talks about materials through the ages.

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