The Foundation And The Fundamental Pillar Of World Technological Civilization And Economic Development.

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.