How it is made, describing in simple language how various machines and many articles in common use are manufactured from the raw materials / by Archibald Williams author of "The Romance of Modern Invention," "Victories of the Engineer," "How It Works," "Things to Make," "A book of the Sea," etc., etc.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Williams, Archibald.

Contributor:

Robert Frost Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Manufactures.

Penn Provenance:

Frost, Robert (donor) (Frost Collection copy)

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered pages, 474 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of color plate : illustrations ; 19 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; Edinburgh ; New York : Thomas Nelson and Sons, Ltd., [1907]

Contents:

Money-making

How paper is made

How matches are made

The building of a piano

Candles and soap

A mineral-water factory

Chinaware and pottery

The manufacture of glass

The making of a photographic plate

The mechanism of weaving

The manufacture of cotton goods

The manufacture of rubber goods

Round a biscuit factory

The smelting of iron

The manufacture of wrought iron

The manufacture of steel

Armour plates and big guns

Saws and files

How a watch is made

In a motor-car factory

Cycle-building

The cradle of a locomotive

Pens

In needle town

Screw-making

Pins

How twine and ropes are made

How wire is made into ropes

Knives and razors

Forks, spoons, and hollow ware.

Notes:

Title and publisher printed in red on t.p.

Date from pencilled note on t.p.

" ... it has come about that the majority of even well-educated people in industrial countries are largely ignorant of the processes by which articles in common are manufactured ... I have therefore been encouraged to make a tour of inspection among our industrial centres, and to record in these pages what I learnt from personal observation."--Preface.

Contains index.

Local Notes:

Frost Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2010 by Robert Frost.

Frost Collection copy rebound in "Edwardian full red calf binding" with "The School. Wellingborough A. D. 1595" stamped in gilt on front cover.

Frost Collection copy has label "The School Wellingborough The William Brown Prize Fund presented to R. Berry Upper V Form Prize" pasted on front pastedown.

Frost Collection copy has pencilled note "First Edition [1907] with colored frontispiece and many illustrations. Edwardian full red calf binding" at end.

Other Format:

Online version: Williams, Archibald. How it is made.

OCLC:

2754326