Fuzzy Logic: The History of Wool Science in Yorkshire
Wool has been grown and crafted into cloth for millennia and a major trade commodity in Yorkshire for about 1000 years but is one of the last natural fibres to receive scientific investigation. Find out how traditional practices, new scientific instruments of analysis, and a sheep shortage during World War I prompted a collaboration between scientists at the University of Leeds, wool growers, and the British Government to create the field of wool science in the early twentieth century and how we can use that knowledge in the battle against climate change today.
Monica Stenzel, Postgraduate Researcher, Center for History & Philosophy of Science, University of Leeds.
Image by kind permission of Winpenny Photography, www.leodis.net.
Lecture on Thursday 20th February, 2025
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