Yes, and on the makers' side, you learn a lot too, trying to find uses for materials. I often wandered in Wikipedia for geology, mineralogy, flora, alloys - for

Yes, and on the makers' side, you learn a lot too, trying to find uses for materials. I often wandered in Wikipedia for geology, mineralogy, flora, alloys - for those I even ended up in professional websites. I learned about the Soda pulping for paper and cotton seed oil (which is not common in my country).