Posts tagged with recycling

  1. Bound in History – Never Judge a Book By Its Cover…Or Its Spine

    Following the invention of the printing press, bookbinders in the 15th to 18th centuries cut up and recycled earlier handwritten manuscripts from the Middle Ages.[i] Take, …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/librarycollections/2017/09/05/bound-in-history-never-judge-a-book-by-its-coveror-its-spine

  2. Percy’s tobacco-box contraption: an ingenious experiment for recording musical notation using repurposed materials

    This contraption, ostensibly a small wooden tobacco box, is actually an experiment in musical notation hand-made by Percy Grainger.  Mounted through the lid of the box …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/librarycollections/2016/08/01/percys-tobacco-box-contraption-an-ingenious-experiment-for-recording-musical-notation-using-repurposed-materials