Anna Ploszajski

Anna Ploszajski is an award-winning materials scientist, engineer and communicator. Her projects have included attempts to break a land-speed record at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah and power Glastonbury Festival using hydrogen. She is the author of Handmade.

a close up of a person wearing a blue shirt.

a blue and white porcelain frame with a picture of a piece of wood.

The Past

To invent porcelain, Europeans turned to alchemists and burned cow bones

Due to export controls from China, the Europeans had to invent their own forms of porcelain. One type involves dead cows.