Technology
The four books of this series have been written not merely to provide agreeable reading matter for children, but to give them information. When a child can look at a steel pen not simply as an article furnished by the city for his use, but rather as the result of many interest...
If any one should give you a lump of clay and ask you to make a bowl, how should you set about it? The first thing would be, of course, to put it on a table so you could work on...
2. Chapter 2After a while sewing machines were invented, and factories were built, and now in a single county of the State of New York many thousand people are at work making various kinds...
3. Chapter 3The monotype girl wrote these words on her keyboard, where they made tiny holes in a roll of paper. The roll went to the casting-room where it guided a machine to make the type...
5. Chapter 5In earlier times the shoemaker used to go from house to house with his lapstone, waxed end, awl, and other tools. The farmer provided the leather, which he had tanned from the h...
1. Chapter 1The four books of this series have been written not merely to provide agreeable reading matter for children, but to give them information. When a child can look at a steel pen n...
6. Chapter 6The way to begin to raise silkworms is first of all to provide something for them to eat. They are very particular about their bill of fare. The leaf of the osage orange will an...