How Products are Made - About | Acknowledgments

The editor would like to thank the following individuals, companies, and associations for providing assistance with Volume 7 of How Products Are Made:

Artificial Turf: Patrick Dubeau, FieldTurf Inc., Montreal, Quebec.Birdcage: Guy Cone, Quality Cage Company, Portland, Oregon; Willis Kurtz, Safegaurd, New Holland, Pennsylvania. Diving Bell: Gregory D. Frye, Museum of Man in the Sea, Panama City Beach, Florida. Drain Cleaner: Dennis West, Rooto Corporation. Dry Ice: Robert Foster, Cold Jet, Inc., Loveland, Ohio. Felt: Mark Pryne, Affco, New Windsor, New York. Gas Lantern: Richard Long, Coleman Company, Wichita, Kansas. Headstone: Linda Mathiasen, Cold Spring Granite Company, Cold Spring, Minnesota; John J. Spaulding, Association for Gravestone Studies, Greenfield, Massachusetts. Ironing Board: Joseph Deppen, Home Products International, Chicago, Illinois. Juice Box: Jeff Lofton, SIG Combibloc Inc., Columbus, Ohio; Amy Brower, Tetra Pak, Inc., Denton, Texas. Lawn Sprinkler: Mike Simpson, L. R. Nelson Company, Peoria, Illinois. Laser Pointer: Whitney Kim, Lasermate; Jim Heusinger, Berea Hard Woods. Microphone: Heil Sound Ltd., Fairview Heights, Illinois. Night Vision: Laurel Holder, ITT Night Vision, Roanoke, Virginia. Pacifier: Paul Dailey, Children's Medical Ventures, Inc., Norwell, Massachusetts. Pop Up Book: Greg Witt, Leo Paper Company, Seattle, Washington; Sarah Ketcherside, Candlewick Press, New York, New York. Revolving Door: 0. Harold Boutilier, Sierra Automatic Doors, Inc., Ontario, California. Spinning Wheel: Gord Lendrum, Lendrum Spinning Wheels, Odessa, Ontario. Table: Roger Shinn, Westview Products, Dallas, Oregon. Tuxedo: Barry Cohen, Hartz and Company, Frederick, Maryland. Vending Machine: John Turner, Dixie-Narco, Inc., Williston, South Carolina; Kari Klassen and James Radant, Automatic Products International, Ltd.

Photographs appearing in Volume 7 of How Products Are Made were received from the following sources:

AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission: Artificial Turf. Houston Astrodome, photograph; Brandy. Prohibition demonstration, photograph; Electric Guitar. Hendrix, Jimi, playing guitar, photograph; External Defibrillator. Kouwenhoven, William Bennett, photograph; Goalie Mask. Rheaume, Manon, photograph.

Archive Photos Inc. Reproduced by permission: Michrophone. Morrison, Jim, photograph.

Corbis Corporation. Reproduced by permission: Bank Vault. Dillinger, John Herbert (wanted poster); Punching Bag. Frazier, Joe, throwing punch at Muhammad Ali, photograph.

Corning Consumer Products Company. Reproduced by permission: Pyrex. Corning cookbook, photograph.

The Library of Congress: Cyclotron. Lawrence, Ernest Orlando, photograph; Guillotine. Louis XVI, King, painting; Insulin. Banting, Frederick Grant, photograph; Movie Projector. Lumiere, Louis, photograph; Stereo Speaker. Morita, Akio, photograph.

All line art illustrations in this volume were created by Electronic Illustrators Group (EIG) of Morgan Hill, California.