Everyday Things and their Story

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AND THEIR STORY Mg 256 PAGES WITH OVER 275 PHOTOGRAPHS AND DIAGRAMS 0 This is a book for men and women: boys and girls, who "want to know," a book in which is revealed the románcé surrounding the simplest and commonest things of the workaday world. 0 Everyday things are familiar things, and, for that very reason, we are apt to take them for granted. We all handlé pennies and postage stamps every day, but seldom stop to ask how they are made. This book will teli you. O And matches! We light a match, use it for a few seconds and-throw it away. How many of us even give so much as a thought to the work of the scientists, engineeis, craftsmen and lumbermen whose skill and patience have brought this modern miracle to our homes? How are matches made? Do you know? 0 To ask these questions is to desire to find the answers. This book will give them to you-together with a host of others. ® For "Everyday Things And Their Story" is packed with the true stories, as fascinating as any in fiction,... Tovább

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AND THEIR STORY Mg 256 PAGES WITH OVER 275 PHOTOGRAPHS AND DIAGRAMS 0 This is a book for men and women: boys and girls, who "want to know," a book in which is revealed the románcé surrounding the simplest and commonest things of the workaday world. 0 Everyday things are familiar things, and, for that very reason, we are apt to take them for granted. We all handlé pennies and postage stamps every day, but seldom stop to ask how they are made. This book will teli you. O And matches! We light a match, use it for a few seconds and-throw it away. How many of us even give so much as a thought to the work of the scientists, engineeis, craftsmen and lumbermen whose skill and patience have brought this modern miracle to our homes? How are matches made? Do you know? 0 To ask these questions is to desire to find the answers. This book will give them to you-together with a host of others. ® For "Everyday Things And Their Story" is packed with the true stories, as fascinating as any in fiction, of those great achievements which contribute so much to our mentái and physical well-being: - Tobacco and Cigareties Canned Food Paints and Varnishes Carpets Glass and Glassware Coins Gas and its By-Products Falsé Teeth Electric Laraps & Valves Furniture Artificial Silk Plastics China and Pottery Records Clocks and Watches Postage Stamps Boots and Shoes Qptical Glass Needles and Pins Matches 0 When you read it you will realiseperhaps for the first time-that your home in this everyday world is a store -house of wonders. Vissza