Toaster Project

"Hello, my name is Thomas Thwaites, and I have made a toaster." So begins 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 fou...