ABSTRCT
Materials have been the
milestones of progress. All civilizations have been
categorized by the materials they used; The Stone Age,
The Gold Age, The Silver Age, The Bronze Age, The Iron
Age, etc. Some of these periods in history lasted
centuries but in recent times both the rate of major
materials breakthroughs and their improvements are
increasing ever faster.
Materials are constituents of the earth and the earth is
materials. In Genesis 2:1, it reads: “In the beginning, God
created the heaven and the earth”. So the earth was
either created simultaneously with the heaven or it was
created second, sequentially. And in Psalm 24:1, it reads:
“The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof”---. The
fullness of the earth, are the materials, (plus water and air)
that God had put therein from the beginning for mankind to
process and use for their needs. It is not, therefore, by
accident, that materials have constituted the greatest
physical gifts of God, in addition to air and water that the
Lord God has given to man kind to cope with life and
sustain their existence (on earth) in the world.
In the Book of Exodus, Chapters 31-39, the Lord Himself
commanded Moses to use gold, brass, silver, stones and
wood all materials, for the wares and part of construction
and decoration for the Great Tabernacles. God also
commissioned Be-zal eel, the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of
the tribe of Judah and filled him with His Spirit in wisdom,
and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner
of workmanship to devise cunning works, to work in gold,
and in silver, and in brass, and in casting of stones, to set
them, and in carving of timber, to work in all manner of
workmanship (Exodus 31:1-5). Lastly in Rev. 21:18-23,
the beauty and the construction of New Jerusalem was
described in various assorted materials. It is therefore
correct to say that materials have both spiritual and
physical connotations, dimensions and/or perspectives.
Hence any nation that can study materials scientifically,
process them technologically and apply them to use, are
blessed with technological and economic prosperity. All
things in life that one can see, handle/touch and use all
made of materials derived/extracted from the earth: cars,
air planes, computers, refrigerators, televisions,
microwave ovens, dishes, silverwares, athletic
equipment of all types, medical and biomedical devices
such as replacement joints and limbs, all machines and
machineries, industrial plants and all manners of very
highly sophisticated analytical instrumentations and
equipment just to mention a few, are all made of materials
as we shall see subsequently in this lecture. Without
materials and their uses, the world will not know any
civilization and one can imagine how things would have
been by now.
With regard to the above, one can now ask, `what are
materials'?(MSE). The answer is simple. Just look
around. What do you see? Materials are everywhere!
Nearly all that you see are either materials or made of
materials. The clothes we wear are made from a variety
of materials. Our home is made of materials and so also
where we are now. Everything inside this building is
made of materials.
By definition material is something that consists of matter.
It is the substance of which a thing is made or composed.
It is the constituent element of a thing. It is anything that
serves as crude or original matter to be used or developed.
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