Yesterday our whole family, except for Nicholas and my Dad, drove up to a mountain near Shasta lake, I don’t know the name of the mountain but, I do know it is somewhere near Shasta Lake because we saw Shasta lake from the top of the mountain. We followed the map coordinates Jonathan sent to…

Ts’ai Lun was born around 50 AD in China. He is the first paper maker that established paper in China. The story of Ts’ai Lun is that he started work for the imperial Chinese Government, at a very young age, and he was put in charge of inventing new types of weapons. Ts’ai Lun was…

Parchment was made out of animal skin. The way the Egyptians would have made it is by shaving off the fur of the animal skin, then they would stretch the skin in the sun under tension. The upside of the parchment is that it preserves longer than the papyrus paper and it would not be…

Without paper, people would not be able to write down what they had learned. They would not be able to have books to keep on a bookshelf because if you had a rock and you spent the time trying to chisel a whole book into a stone, it would take a super long time to…

A bloomery is an invention used in the middle ages. To get wrought iron from sand and other chemicals, the way a bloomery would work is they would have to burn charcoal, then add the sand then add more charcoal. This part of the process goes for about 4-7 hours. When the bloomery process is nearly…

glass is used everywhere in our life it is used for car windows, home windows, glass jars, watches, the vacuum tube, and many other things. Glass is made out of sand which sand is made out of silica. Most glass that we see today is usually soda lime glass because pure quartz glass takes the…