Makers of Many Things
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01 Preface and The Little Friction Match
8:39 -
02 About India Rubber
13:55 -
03 "Kid" Gloves
11:47 -
04 How Rags and Trees become Paper
18:29 -
05 How Books are Made
13:33 -
06 From Goose Quills to Fountain Pens and Lead Pencils
14:12 -
07 The Dishes on Our Tables
12:23 -
08 How the Wheels of a Watch go Around
13:01 -
09 The Making of Shoes
12:13 -
10 In the Cotton Mill
14:46 -
11 Silkworms and their Work
14:41
Makers of Many Things (1916) is a public domain work.
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About this book
Behind the small objects on a desk lie machines, raw materials, and careful work. Eva March Tappan's 1916 reader for children explains these connections through familiar goods, beginning with the friction match. Wooden splints move along a chain through dipping, drying, and packing, while the account stresses the precision required at each stage. The chapter list extends this study to rubber, gloves, paper, books, dishes, watches, shoes, cotton, and silk.
The pencil section follows graphite as it is ground, sifted, mixed with clay, and formed into sticks. Changes in the amount of clay determine how hard or soft the pencil will be, and grooved cedar pieces enclose its core. Tappan's stated educational purpose connects such practical detail with an understanding of people's dependence on one another.
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Book facts
- Author
- Eva March Tappan
- Reading time
- About 110 minutes
- Pages
- 60
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Childrens Classics
- Formats
- PDF, EPUB, Read online, Audiobook
- Audio read by
- Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)