Toaster Project Or a Heroic Attempt to Build a Simple Electric Appliance from Scratch

Name: Toaster Project Or a Heroic Attempt to Build a Simple Electric Appliance from Scratch
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ISBN: 9781568989976

ISBN-10: 1568989970

ISBN-13: 9781568989976

Edition: 2011

Authors: Thomas Thwaites

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"Hello, my name is Thomas Thwaites, and I have made a toaster." So begins The Toaster Project, the author's nine month-long journey from his local appliance store to remote mines in the UK to his mother's backyard, where he creates a crude foundry. Along the way, he learns that an ordinary toaster is made up of 404 separate parts, that the best way to smelt metal at home is by using a method found in a fifteenth-century treatise, and that plastic is almost impossible to make from scratch. In the end, Thwaites's homemade toaster-a haunting and strangely beautiful object-cost 250 times more than the toaster he bought at the store and involved close to two thousand miles of travel to some of…

Book details

List price: $21.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Publication date: 9/28/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 5.06" wide x 7.29" long x 0.65" tall
Weight: 0.616
Language: English



Foreword


Preface



Deconstruction



Steel



Mica



PIastic



Copper



Nickel



Construction


Acknowledgments


Bibliography


Image Credits