The Toaster Project: Or a Heroic Attempt to Build a Simple Electric Appliance from Scratch
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Where do our things really come from? China is the most common
answer, but Thomas Thwaites decided he wanted to know more. In The
Toaster Project, Thwaites asks what lies behind the smooth buttons
on a mobile phone or the cushioned soles of running sneakers. What
is involved in extracting and processing materials? To answer these
questions, Thwaites set out to construct, from scratch, one of the
most commonplace appliances in our kitchens today: a toaster. The
Toaster Project takes the reader on Thwaites s journey from
dismantling the cheapest toaster he can find in London to
researching how to smelt metal in a fifteenth-century treatise. His
incisive restrictions all parts of the toaster must be made from
scratch and Thwaites had to make the toaster himself made his task
difficult, but not impossible. It took nine months and cost 250
times more than the toaster he bought at the store. In the end,
Thwaites reveals the true ingredients in the products we use every
day. Most interesting is not the final creation but the lesson
learned. The Toaster Project helps us reflect on the costs and
perils of our cheap consumer culture and the ridiculousness of
churning out millions of toasters and other products at the expense
of the environment. If products were designed more efficiently,
with fewer parts that are easier to recycle, we would end up with
objects that last longer and we would generate less waste
altogether. Foreword by David Crowley, head of critical writing at
the Royal College of Art and curator at the Victoria and Albert
Museum. Follow Thomas Thwaites in his newest book GoatMan.
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