- Title:
- Plastics in the Modern World
- Object name(s):
- reference book; plastics in general
- Brief description:
- Yarsley, V.E., Couzens, E.G., 1968. Plastics in the Modern World. Penguin Books, Harmondsworth. This book covers the following: List of plates - List of text figures - List of tables - Foreword - Acknowledgements - Part one: The theory and practice of plastics - 1. Plastics today - 2. Definition of plastics and their sub-divisions - 3. The physical behaviour of plastics - 4. The chemistry of plastics and 'tailor-made' plastics - 5. The historical background of plastics - 6. The industrial plastics - 7. Raw materials - 8. The manufacture of plastics - 9. The manipulation of plastics - 10. High polymers in 'non-plastics' applications - Part two: Plastics applied -11. Plastics in domestic life - 12. Plastics in industry - 13. Miscellaneous applications of plastics - 14. Plastics are big business - 15. Research and development in the plastics industries - 16 Envoi - Glossary of trade names - Glossary of terms used in the plastics industry - Bibliography - Stop-press - Index
- Collection:
- Museum of Design in Plastics
- Associated concept:
- MoDiP reference library
- Material:
- paper
- Object name:
- reference book; plastics in general
- Object number:
- MoDiPL : 0295
- Object production date:
- 1968
- Object production organisation:
- Penguin
- Organisation's association:
- Publisher
- Object production person:
- Yarsley, Victor Emmanuel
- Person's association:
- Author
- Object production place:
- UK
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/bd659f17-f46b-3f10-b3ae-676871815c20
Use licence for this record: CC BY
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/bd659f17-f46b-3f10-b3ae-676871815c20, Museum of Design in Plastics, CC BY
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