Sand and Silicon: Science that Changed the World - McWhan, Denis (Retired from Bell Telephone Laboratories and Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA) - Books - Oxford University Press - 9780199640270 - March 24, 2012
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Sand and Silicon: Science that Changed the World

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This is a story about sand and how science and silicon changed our lives. Over the last century science taught us to take this common material and make the products on which we depend - computer chips, solar cells and optical fibres. This book relates the underlying scientific discoveries to the products made from sand.


160 pages, 34 b/w line drawings, 23 b/w halftones

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released March 24, 2012
ISBN13 9780199640270
Publishers Oxford University Press
Pages 160
Dimensions 164 × 240 × 15 mm   ·   430 g
Language English  

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