How Products Are Made

Inventor Biographies

Alan M. Turing to Joseph von Fraunhofer
Cleveland Abbe to Louis Braille
Ernst Ruska to Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Geradrus Mercator to James Rumsey
Joseph Bramah to Thomas Davenport
Robert Goddard to Percy Lavon Julian
Shelby Davidson to Donald A. Glaser
William Kelly to Edwin Mattison McMillan

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How Products Are Made explains and details the manufacturing process of a wide variety of products, from daily household items to complicated electronic equipment and heavy machinery. The site provides step by step descriptions of the assembly and the manufacturing process (complemented with illustrations and diagrams) Each product also has related information such as the background, how the item works, who invented the product, raw materials that were used, product applications, by-products that are generated, possible future developments, quality control procedures, etc.

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