How Products Are Made: An Illustrated Guide to Product Manufacturing (How Products Are Made) Volume 1

By Gale Cengage Learning

This title seeks to answer the question how do they make that? with approximately 100 in-depth, illustrated articles covering a wide variety of products. Each entry offers a straightforward, step-by-step description of the manufacturing and assembly process. There is also coverage of related issues: historical background on the product; raw materials used; by-products generated during manufacture; quality control procedures; future applications and sources for more infromation. Vintage product photographs and side bars relating historical trivia are provided by William Pretzer, a manufacturing historian at the Henry Ford Museum.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081038907X
• ISBN13: 9780810389076
• Release Date: December 1993
• Publisher: Gale
• Length: 552 Pages
• Weight: 3.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.3" x 1.5" x 8.8"