000346328 000__ 02328cam\a2200313\a\4500 000346328 001__ 346328 000346328 005__ 20210513124740.0 000346328 008__ 090904s2010\\\\ilua\\\\\b\\\\001\0\eng\c 000346328 010__ $$a 2009037097 000346328 020__ $$a9780226014708 (alk. paper) 000346328 020__ $$a0226014703 (alk. paper) 000346328 035__ $$a(OCoLC)ocn436221287 000346328 035__ $$a346328 000346328 040__ $$aICU/DLC$$cDLC$$dYDXCP$$dLIQ$$dC#P$$dBWX$$dCDX$$dLGG$$dLHU 000346328 042__ $$apcc 000346328 049__ $$aISEA 000346328 05000 $$aQP517.B56$$bB86 2010 000346328 08200 $$a570.1/5195$$222 000346328 24500 $$aBulletproof feathers :$$bhow science uses nature's secrets to design cutting-edge technology /$$cedited by Robert Allen. 000346328 260__ $$aChicago :$$bUniversity of Chicago Press,$$c2010. 000346328 300__ $$a192 p. :$$bchiefly col. ill. ;$$c22 cm. 000346328 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 000346328 5050_ $$aAerodynamics of biological flight / Jeremy Rayner -- Marine dynamics / Jeannette Yen -- Humanlike robots / Yoseph Bar-Cohen -- Underwater bioacoustics / Tomonari Akamatsu -- Air acoustics / James Simmons -- Cooperative behavior / Robert Allen -- Ventilation / Steve Vogel -- New materials & natural design / Julian Vincent. 000346328 520__ $$a"Though they may sound like the stuff of science fiction, in fact such inventions represent only the most recent iterations of natural mechanisms that are billions of years old - the focus of the rapidly growing field of biomimetics. Based on the realization that natural selection has for countless eons been conducting trial-and-error experiments with the laws of physics, chemistry, material science, and engineering, biomimetics takes nature as its laboratory, looking to the most successful developments and strategies of an array of plants and animals as a source of technological innovation and ideas. Thus the lotus flower, with its waxy, water-resistant surface, gives us stainproofing; the feathers of raptors become transformable airplane wings; and the nerve-deadening serrations on a mosquito's proboscis are adapted to hypodermics."--pub. desc. 000346328 650_0 $$aBiomimetics. 000346328 650_0 $$aRobotics. 000346328 7001_ $$aAllen, R.$$q(Robert),$$d1947- 000346328 85200 $$bgen$$hQP517.B56$$iB86$$i2010 000346328 85642 $$3Contributor biographical information$$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1013/2009037097-b.html 000346328 85642 $$3Publisher description$$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1013/2009037097-d.html 000346328 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:346328$$pGLOBAL_SET 000346328 980__ $$aBIB 000346328 980__ $$aBOOK