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Bulletproof feathers : how science uses nature's secrets to design cutting-edge technology /

Bulletproof feathers : how science uses nature's secrets to design cutting-edge technology / edited by Robert Allen. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010. - 192 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 180-189) and index.

Aerodynamics 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.

9780226014708 (cloth : alk. paper) 0226014703

2009037097


Biomimetics.
Robotics.

QP517.B56 / B86 2010

570.1/5195

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