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Silon textile material (synthetic fiber) was invented by Otto Wichterle during 1940s. Water jet loom is a shuttleless loom, which allowed much faster operation. It was invented and patented by Vladimír Svatý in 1950. First machine was made in Zlín, mass produced in Semily since 1955.
Micarta industrial laminates are normally phenolic, epoxy, silicone, or melamine resin based thermoset materials reinforced with fiberglass, cork, cotton cloth, paper, carbon fiber or other substrates. Micarta industrial laminate sheet is a hard, dense material made by applying heat and pressure to layers of prepreg. These layers of lamination ...
Henry Moore. Large Two Forms (LH 566) is a 1966-1969 sculpture by Henry Moore. The monumental sculpture measures 365 cm × 610 cm × 400 cm (144 in × 240 in × 157 in). It comprises two large curving elements that almost meet. The organic shapes, each with oval openings, resemble two human pelvis bones, positioned as if copulating.
The generalised chemical structure of polyisocyanurate showing the isocyanurate group. The polyols are abbreviated as R-groups.. Polyisocyanurate (/ ˌ p ɒ l ɪ ˌ aɪ s oʊ s aɪ ˈ æ nj ʊər eɪ t /), also referred to as PIR, polyol, or ISO, is a thermoset plastic typically produced as a foam and used as rigid thermal insulation.
Kunstformen der Natur (known in English as Art Forms in Nature) is a book of lithographic and halftone prints by German biologist Ernst Haeckel. Publication [ edit ] Originally published in sets of ten between 1899 and 1904 and collectively in two volumes in 1904, [2] it consists of 100 prints of various organisms, many of which were first ...
Nomex is produced by condensation reaction from the monomers m -phenylenediamine and isophthaloyl chloride. [1] It is sold in both fiber and sheet forms and is used as a fabric where resistance from heat and flame is required. Nomex sheet is actually a calendered paper and made in a similar fashion. Nomex Type 410 paper was the first Nomex ...
Glass is a non-crystalline or amorphous solid material that exhibits a glass transition when heated towards the liquid state. Glasses can be made of quite different classes of materials: inorganic networks (such as window glass, made of silicate plus additives), metallic alloys, ionic melts, aqueous solutions, molecular liquids, and polymers.
Crayon-style print by Gilles Demarteau with a nude man after original drawing by Edmé Bouchardon was acquired by Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw as a teaching material. A figure drawing is a study of the human form in its various shapes and body postures, with line, form, and composition as the primary objective, rather than the subject person ...