Sleeping Instructions Podcast

Sleeping Instructions - Model T Ford Part 3

This week we are finishing the manual from the Ford Model T manual. The model T Ford was the earliest motor vehicle to be mass-produced, making vehicle ownership available to more people than ever before, and requiring a manual for the common owner.

Sleeping Instructions - Model T Ford Part 2

This week we are continuing to read the manual from the Ford Model T manual. The model T Ford was the earliest motor vehicle to be mass-produced, making vehicle ownership available to more people than ever before, and requiring a manual for the common owner.

Sleeping Instructions - Singer Sewing Machine

In this episode we will be reading an instruction manual for Singer sewing machines published in 1938. The iconic Singer sewing machine was not the very first sewing machine to be invented but was the first complex standardised technology to be mass marketed. It was one of the original disruptive technologies, changing the way the world manufactured textiles. You can read more about the history of Singer Company here: www.shorturl.at/arI13

Sleeping Instructions - Model T Ford

This week we are starting to read the manual from the Ford Model T manual. The model T Ford was the earliest motor vehicle to be mass-produced, making vehicle ownership available to more people than ever before, and requiring a manual for the common owner.

Sleeping Instructions - Vacuum Tubes

This episode we will be reading an instruction manual for vacuum tubes from 1933. Vacuum tubes are electronic switches. They were critical to the development of electronic technology such as radio, television, radar, sound recording, telephone networks and computing. You can find the manual for this episode here: https://archive.org/details/Western_Electric_Tubes_1933