Stronger than steel, the book of spiders...

The book, Stronger Than Steel, is about how spider silk can be beneficial to our society by replacing certain tools and objects we use with spider silk, which, hence the name, is stronger than steel. The book is also about a reporter's (the narrator) journey around the country to find out more about spider silk. Along the way, he finds spider goats, transgenic silk worms, and lots and lots of spiders. He also helps the reader (me) realize the importance of spider silk, which can replace ligaments, fishing lines, bullet proof vests, and even sutures and stitches. So don't kill spiders, they could probably save your life one day!

 This is the golden orb spider(above), and it's silk is five times stronger than steel. It is also roughly 8 times less heavy than it. This arachnid is female, only females spin silk. What this book shows you is how spiders live their lives. It shows that spiders have silk to help them. It also gives ideas as to harness spider silk to improve a variety of tools like bullet proof vests, fishing rods, and arrest lines that help airplanes land easier. These reprised tools are especially important because the silk could be much more helpful and useful than any of the current materials used to this effect. Yet the book also portrays to the reader(again me), that it is extremely difficult to attain this high amount of the golden orb spider silk. In the Natural History Museum, There is a woven piece of golden orb spider silk. It is only 3 feet by 3 feet, but it still took the tremendous amount of time to collect it all by more than 50 searchers. It took 8 years to find enough silk to supply that piece.This shows that there is not enough of it to really use it, but scientists are always finding new ways to extract them. All in all, the book Stronger Than Steel explains how spiders can be beneficial to the society and help us, and how useful spiders really are. That put a close to the book, Stronger Than Steel.