The Toaster Project: Or A Heroic Attempt to Build a Simple

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The Toaster Project: Or A Heroic Attempt to Build a Simple Electric Appliance from Scratch

"Hello, my name is Thomas Thwaites, and I have made a toaster." So beginsÂ 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 toasterâ€”a haunting and strangely beautiful objectâ€”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.Â The Toaster ProjectÂ 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.

Country	USA
Author	Thomas Thwaites
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9781616891190
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Princeton Architectural Press
Manufacturer	Princeton Architectural Press
NumberOfPages	192
PublicationDate	2012-03-20
Publisher	Princeton Architectural Press
ReleaseDate	2012-03-20
Studio	Princeton Architectural Press

The Toaster Project: Or A Heroic Attempt to Build a Simple Electric Appliance from Scratch