How Products Are Made
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Description: Explains and details the manufacturing process of a wide variety of products, from daily household items to complicated electronic equipment and heavy machinery. The site provides step by step descriptions of the assembly and the manufacturing process (complemented with illustrations and diagrams). Each product also has related information such as the background, how the item works, who invented the product, raw materials that were used, product applications, by-products that are generated, possible future developments, quality control procedures, etc. Content within the website, except those explicitly noted otherwise, are Copyright by Thomson Gale.
The Technical Reports and Standards (TRS) unit at the Library of Congress has an extensive collection of Sams Photofact - electronic repair manuals containing printed schematics and technical service data for different models and brand names covering a wide variety of consumer electronic equipment.
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Technical Reports and Standards
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United States Patent and Trademark Office
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