Page 77 - Inventions - A Visual Encyclopedia (DK - Smithsonian)
P. 77
3-D PRINTING MAKING THE MODERN WORLD
We have barely begun to discover what 3-D printing
can do. The process of feeding a digital 3-D design into
a computer, which then instructs a machine to create the
object with plastic, is limited only by our imaginations.
Today, some hospitals print replacement body parts,
engineers print houses, and the US luge team at the 2018
Winter Olympics rode sleds which were 3-D printed.
Who knows what will come next?
US_074-075_308121_3D_printing.indd 75 08/03/2018 17:17
