浅述材料发展史（The history of the development of materials）.doc

浅述材料发展史（The history of the development of materials） The history of the development of materials [Abstract] this paper briefly introduces the development history of materials, and then gives a brief introduction to metal materials, inorganic non-metallic materials and polymer materials. Material development; metal materials; inorganic non-metallic materials; polymer materials The development of human society is based on material as the main symbol. Historically, materials have been regarded as a milestone in the evolution of human society. The ability to recognize and utilize materials determines the shape of society and the quality of human life. Historians also use materials and utensils as symbols of the era: Stone Age, bronze age, iron age, and polymer material age...... 1 million years ago, primitive men used stones as tools, called Paleolithic times. 10 thousand years ago, human beings processed the stone tools to make them utensils and exquisite tools, thus entering the Neolithic age. Now that China has made archaeological practical pottery in eight thousand years ago, six thousand years ago, has melted brass, in more than four thousand years ago has simple bronze tools, more than three thousand years ago has been used to manufacture weapons aerosiderite. Our ancestors would have been smelting iron in the spring and Autumn period more than 2500 years ago, more than 1800 years earlier than in europe. In eighteenth Century, the development of the iron and steel industry became an important content and material base of the industrial revolution. The middle of the nineteenth Century, modern and open hearth steelmaking technology, makes the human truly entered the era of iron and steel. At the same time, copper, lead and zinc have also been widely used. Aluminum, magnesium, titanium and other metals have come out and have been applied. Until the middle of the twentieth Century, metal materials have been dominant in the material industry. Since the middle of the tw