# The history of a pot of varnish

Author: Anonymous

Genre: Varnish and varnishing

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77263

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+history+of+a+pot+of+varnish+Anonymous&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Together with their love of the practical in the industrial arts, Americans have a ready faculty of discovering an interest touching almost on the romantic in the origin and production of what pass ordinarily for useful and prosaic things. Herein lies a part of the secret of their great success in mechanical pursuits. This inborn mechanical curiosity has led many a young American to take apart his mother’s self-winding tape measure, or the family sewing machine, just “to see how the thing was made.” We seldom, any of us, lose the desire to visit machine-shops and factories, and see with our own eyes how the work of creation, in a limited way, is carried forward, by men who, from habit, lo...

## Chapters

- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-history-of-a-pot-of-varnish-77263/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-history-of-a-pot-of-varnish-77263/chapters/2/index.md)