Re: Glue
You could try listening to the BBC's recent radio series about the history of human use of glue at https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001y89y. (*)
"Released On: 15 Apr 2024 Available for over a year
Modern life would quite literally fall apart without glues – they hold our buildings, our phones, even our bodies together. But the story of stickiness runs much deeper than that. In fact, our greatest leaps forward as a species couldn’t have happened without adhesives.
In this series, materials scientist Mark Miodownik charts the journey of human progress through the sticky substances that have shaped us. In episode one he explores the very earliest adhesives, dating back at least 190,000 years, that allowed our ancestors to invent, innovate, and make the first tools.
And he hears how lumps of these prehistoric glues contain fragments of the stone age people who used them, trapped in time for thousands of years."
* Log on required, sorry, but it is really interesting, in a nerdish sort of way.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
