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The New Science of Strong Materials: Or Why You Don't Fall Through the Floor by J E Gordon (Paperback, 1991)

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Why isn't wood weaker that it is?. Why isn't steel stronger?. What is a liquid and is treacle one?. All of them are vital to engineers but also fascinating as scientific problems. During the 250 years up to the 1920s and 1930s they had been answered largely by seeing how materials behaved in practice.