How Products Are Made. An Illustrated Guide to Product Manufacturing

Neil Schlager081038907X, 9780810389076

This fascinating book, which launches a series on the manufacturing processes of products from foods to cosmetics to electronics to vehicles, details the manufacture of 101 randomly selected items. The products covered here are a curious mix, including automobiles, blue jeans, chewing gum, jet engines, microwave ovens, pantyhose, salsa, stainless steel, tortilla chips, and zippers. Ranging from four to seven pages, each entry includes the product’s description, history, design, manufacturing process, raw materials, by-products, future uses, and a bibliography. The text is nontechnical, and the illustrations are clear, making this book appropriate for YAs as well as adult lay readers. The entries are generally adequate, though some are extremely brief; one can only hope that, as future volumes are compiled, the editor will choose products whose manufacture can be successfully described in a brief space. All in all, however, this is a useful reference tool for school, public, and undergraduate collections.

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Table of contents :
Cover Page……Page 1
Title Page……Page 3
ISBN 081038907X……Page 4
Contents (with page links)……Page 5
Introduction……Page 7
Contributors……Page 10
Acknowledgments……Page 11
Air Bag……Page 14
Aluminum Foil……Page 21
Artificial Limb……Page 27
Aspirin……Page 32
Automobile……Page 37
Automobile Windshield……Page 44
Baking Soda……Page 48
Ball Bearing……Page 52
Bar Code Scanner……Page 57
Baseball……Page 63
Baseball Glove……Page 68
Battery……Page 73
Bicycle Shorts……Page 78
Blood Pressure Monitor……Page 82
Blue Jeans……Page 87
Book……Page 93
Brick……Page 99
Bulletproof Vest……Page 104
Candle……Page 109
Carbon Paper……Page 113
Cellophane Tape……Page 118
Ceramic Tile……Page 122
Chalk……Page 127
Cheese……Page 132
Chewing Gum……Page 137
Chocolate……Page 142
Coffee……Page 147
Combination Lock……Page 152
Combine……Page 156
Compact Disc……Page 161
Compact Disc Player……Page 166
Concrete……Page 171
Cooking Oil……Page 177
Corrugated Cardboard……Page 182
Cutlery……Page 187
Expanded Polystyrene Foam (EPF)……Page 193
Eyeglass Lens……Page 198
File Cabinet……Page 203
Fire Extinguisher……Page 207
Floppy Disk……Page 212
Gold……Page 217
Golf Cart……Page 222
Grinding Wheel……Page 227
Guitar……Page 232
Helicopter……Page 236
Jet Engine……Page 243
Laboratory Incubator……Page 249
Laser Guided Missile……Page 255
Laundry Detergent……Page 260
Lawn Mower……Page 265
Light Bulb……Page 269
Light-Emitting Diode (LED)……Page 274
Lipstick……Page 280
Liquid Crystal Display (LCD)……Page 285
Lubricating Oil……Page 290
Mattress……Page 294
Microwave Oven……Page 299
Mirror……Page 304
Nail Polish……Page 310
Necktie……Page 314
Optical Fiber……Page 318
Paint……Page 323
Pantyhose……Page 328
Peanut Butter……Page 333
Pencil……Page 339
Pesticide……Page 343
Porcelain……Page 348
Postage Stamp……Page 353
Pressure Gauge……Page 358
Rayon……Page 363
Refrigerator……Page 368
Revolver……Page 374
Rubber Band……Page 380
Running Shoe……Page 384
Saddle……Page 389
Salsa……Page 394
Sandpaper……Page 398
Satellite Dish……Page 403
Screwdriver……Page 408
Seismograph……Page 413
Shaving Cream……Page 419
Soda Bottle……Page 423
Solar Cell……Page 427
Spark Plug……Page 433
Stainless Steel……Page 437
Stapler……Page 443
Stethoscope……Page 447
Sugar……Page 452
Super Glue……Page 457
Thermometer……Page 461
Tire……Page 466
Tortilla Chip……Page 471
Trumpet……Page 477
Umbrella……Page 482
Washing Machine……Page 486
Watch……Page 491
Wind Turbine……Page 495
Wine……Page 501
Wool……Page 507
Zipper……Page 513
Zirconium……Page 518