this man is an author he writes stories he has just finished writing a story he thinks many people like to read it so he must have the story made into a book let's see how the book is made first the story goes to the printing shop this workman is a typesetter he starts the job of preparing the story so it can be printed he types  story on this machine letter by letter every time the typesetter touches a key a mold for a letter slides into this box many moles together make a line every time the lever goes up melted metal poor is over the letter molds inside the machine when the metal cools off it hardens and makes a line of words it takes many lines like this to make a page here he arranges the lines for each page has to have a picture the picture takes up the space of many lines the composer then goes to the next stage with a piece of wood the composer mark the end of each page when many pages like this are ready to work one takes them to another part of the printing shop then this workman takes the lines of type from many pages and fits them into a metal frame he must be careful not to mix them up long and short pieces of metal keep the pages apart and fill out the edges this lock the lines and pictures tightly in the frame locks them on all sides and then he even has all the lines so that none of them will stick up then all is locked they'll tighter so that the lines and pages won't come apart lines in pages with a plate of wax then he pushes it into the press down goes the press and out comes the wax plate with all the pictures and letters pressed into the next and other worker dipped the wax plate into a large tank which has copper in it the copper goes into all the places where the letters of pressed into the wax it forms a solid plate it has the same letters and same pictures as before but it is much stronger many books can be printed from copper plate now the plates are cut apart this sharp saw easily cuts through the hard cop each of these small plates has the words and pictures for just one page of the book next the plates go over to the printing press here this workman makes the plates ready for printing on this prints that is why they call him the ready man the space where you see sixty four pages that on one b there are two beds on this brad one for each side of the paper this printing press must be filled with plates before the printing can begin now one push of a button and the big press starts the paper it travels around the drums rollers spread the ink evenly over the pla first one side of the paper has prints to one set of plates then the other side of the paper to the other said heat after heat the printed pages begin to pile up but one end of the press now let's see what happens to the sheets after they are printed here in the book binding planned they first come to the folding machine each large printed sheet will be folded and delayed reaches the size of a single and the machine goes on folding unfolding until all the printed sheets have been folded and this man checks the folders to make sure that the pages follow each other in the right order they see to it that there are always folders in every b this machine gathers the folders in the right order from the first page to the last page of the book one by one the machine gathers all the posters for one book at the end of this long machine the folders are coming out all the pages for the book here other girls take the assembled folders to other machines sos them together again each folder goes into the machine separately this machine sews the folders together with strong thread the sewing will keep the pages from coming apart after the books have been so they go on to the trimming shop this machine crimmins the pages to just the right size with three sharp knives first with one knife for the long side of the book then with two knives for the two short sides but the books are not yet finished they still need covers drawn book covers are made from paper board first the paper board is cut just the right size next cloth from this roll is glued over the paper board this makes coverage that are strong and good looking and last the name of the book is stamped on the cover in shining golden letters now the covers are ready for the pages of the book to be put inside them one push and the book has a cover around it another push and the cover is glued tight here they go all out then they stand ready for hipping to all parts of the world that the story has been made into a book for readers everywhere