| Description | Track 1: Frank Stanley talks about tools and tradesmen, 3.02 mins
Track 2: Charles Parker records himself talking about the aims of 'The Maker and the Tool', 2.26 mins
Track 3-6: A man talks about computer engineering, the tools used, and the different processes involved
Track 7: A woman talks about coil winding and hand winding; Charles Parker compares it to lace work and she agrees that it is similar, 1.43 mins
Track 8: she talks about using scissors, tweezers, and needles, she talks about getting used to the feel of the wire, knowing how to hold it and find kinks in it, she shows Charles Parker the magnifying glass she uses, 2.00 mins
Track 9: Charles Parker asks about the nervous strain of the job - she talks about having to repeat a job, she talks about getting used to the job and having confidence in what she is doing and liking the work, finding it the variety interesting, she explains how she works from a diagram, 2.09 mins
Track 10: she says she doesn't know what the coils are used for, another woman talks about learning how to wind and solder, 2.20 mins
Track 11: (speed too fast) Charles Parker asks a woman about the challenge of winding and the satisfaction of the job, the pride and satisfaction in seeing a finished computer, 2.15 mins
Track 12: she talks about making plastic-covered coils for ovens, she talks about eye strain, 1.38 mins
Track 13: (occasionally inaudible because the speed is too fast) Charles Parker asks whether there is satisfaction in putting things in order, Pamela Williams talks about each worker knowing the feel of her own tweezers, 3.04 mins
Track 14: a man talks about testing tape recorders, sounds of machinery and people talking, 2.47 mins
Track 15: Mr Munro, a Scottish man talks about making cables for televisions and how televisions are assembled, he explains how he cuts, numbers, and laces the wires and shows Charles Parker the tools he uses, 2.49 mins
Track 16: he talks about the pliers he uses, he likes the work because different jobs come up, the satisfaction of producing something, he talks about the numbers used for the different colour wires, 2.39 mins
Track 17: a woman talks about liking the job, liking to learn about the coding, she tells him the codes for the colours of the wires and says that the job has ruined her hands, she tells Charles Parker some of the names of the tools, he asks about the satisfaction of the job, 3.47 mins
Track 18: Mrs Chave talks about working on wiring, finding it interesting, liking the detailed work, she tells him the codes for the colours of the wires and for the sizes of wire and the pliers she uses, she talks about getting used to her own tools, knowing her own tools, 3.31 mins
Track 19: Mrs Chave says that her husband find most of her tools, she says that she likes having a job and wouldn't like to be at home, the satisfaction of the job, neatness; another woman talks about connecting cables, 3.40 mins
Track 20: Pauline Cartwright talks about the satisfaction she gets from seeing the component she works with in a computer, she likes figuring out the detail of sockets and writing it down in a book, and the satisfaction of finishing a big job, she talks about her pliers and nails, she shows Charles Parker the tools in her box, 3.57 mins
Track 21: Pauline Cartwright talks about the system of codes she has made up for herself to wire different sockets, talks about putting the wrong cover on and how she mended it, she talks about liking to work with her hands, she talks about the personal association she feels with her pliers, 4.04 mins
Track 22: Pauline Cartwright talks more about her pliers, and the numbers for the colours of the wires, Charles Parker says she has an extraordinary engagement with her job and ability to talk about it, 3.47 mins
Track 23: Pauline Cartwright talks about days when she works well or badly, she talks about having her bench in order an easel in the way, she shows him how to tie a knot; a man talks about computer science - 'an adding machine', 4.17 mins
Total: 1.07.54 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF565D0872580 |