‘Hello, my name is Thomas Thwaites, and I have made a toaster.’ So begins
The Toaster Project, the author’s nine-month-long journey from his local appliance store to remote mines in the UK to his mother’s backyard, where he creates a crude foundry. Along the way, he learns that an ordinary toaster is made up of 404 separate parts, that the best way to smelt metal at home is by using a method found in a fifteenth-century treatise, and that plastic is almost impossible to make from scratch. In the end, Thwaites’s homemade toaster—a haunting and strangely beautiful object—cost 250 times more than the toaster he bought at the store and involved close to two thousand miles of travel to some of Britain’s remotest locations.
The Toaster Project may seem foolish, even insane. Yet, Thwaites’s quixotic tale, told with self-deprecating wit, helps us reflect on the costs and perils of our cheap consumer culture, and in so doing reveals much about the organization of the modern world.
Thomas Thwaites
The Toaster Project [EPUB ebook]
Or A Heroic Attempt to Build a Simple Electric Appliance from Scratch
The Toaster Project [EPUB ebook]
Or A Heroic Attempt to Build a Simple Electric Appliance from Scratch
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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 192 ● ISBN 9781616891190 ● File size 50.6 MB ● Publisher Princeton Architectural Press ● Published 2012 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 6523845 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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