1. BIONICS HISTORY

2. STRUCTURE
definition
mainsteps
other applications
sources

3. Bionics uses the knowledge of biology to improve technical processes.
DEFINITION
Bionics uses the knowledge of biology to improve technical processes.

4. MAINSTEPS
Icarus got wings built after the idol of birds from his father. They were constructed of an wooden trestle and the feathers were pasted with wax. When he flew too high the wax melted and he felt down in the sea.

5. MAINSTEPS
Da Vinci was called as the first bionician. He constructed flying objects, helicopters and parachutes and some more. He has been inspiriated by natural phenomenons.

6. MAINSTEPS
Hezarfen Ahmend Celebi built after the observations da Vinci's and his own studies of the flight from birds a glider with which he crossed the Bosporus.

7. MAINSTEPS
Since the first ships had been built, they used the idol of fish to make them streamlined and so less of currency.

8. MAINSTEPS
In the 19th century Michael Kelly invented the “barbed wire”. He used his knowledge about plants with thorns. With this wire he intended to make a cheaper possibility to hold his cattle on his pasture than building walls.

9. MAINSTEPS
After analysing a capsule of a poppy plant Raoul Francé develpoed a shaker for the agricultural farming. This “Neuer Streuer” was the first biological patent in germany.

10. MAINSTEPS
The most popular bionical invention was been made by Georges de Mestral – the Velcro. He manufactured it after the idol of the burdock.

11. He watched that the fur of his dog was full of burdocks when it came out of the forrest. He analysed detaily those and found hooks at the end of the prickles. This was his inspiriation to invent the Velcro.

12. OTHER APPLICATIONS Lotuseffect
the olympic stadium in Munich, which is constructed like the net of a spider

13. RESOURCES www.bionikzentrum.de www.de/wikipedia.org/wiki/Bionik