manufacturing processes

Highlights the influential individuals and the important discoveries and developments in toolmaking and manufacturing.

Henry Ford, the creator of the Model T automobile, visits Santa Claus at the North Pole and, as he watches the elves making toys, he decides to use the same assembly line method to manufacture his automobile.

Explains the science and technology behind Global Positioning Systems and provides information on how they arebuilt, the technology and materials that make them work, and how they are used.

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that describe the manufacturing processes of thirty-four popular foods, articles of clothing, machines, and creative conveniences, each with information on the item's history or development, raw materials needed for production, design, quality control, by-products, and future products.

Explains how thirteen different products are manufactured, including baseballs, buttons, matches, rubber bands, plastic bottles, bricks, and eyeglass frames.

Profiles one hundred products, from action figures to Spam to xylophones, describing their histories, raw materials, design, quality control, byproducts/waste, and the future of each, and presenting step-by-step descriptions of each product's manufacturing process, as well as a further-reading list for each.

An encyclopedia of science and technology that surveys both natural materials and artficial ones, and examines the ways they are used in manufacturing.

Contains photographs and text that provide a step-by-step look at how pogo sticks are manufactured at SBI Enterprises Inc., in upstate New York, and includes feature articles on the history of the toy, and a record-breaking hopper.

Explains how a variety of products--such as kaleidoscopes, baseballs, marbles, matches, toothpaste, light bulbs, and bridges--are made, highlighting the ways in which manufacturing techniques have changed over the years. A wall poster and a 24-page booklet of games and puzzles are included.