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- Drying fibers
- In Tirkhedhunga, Nepal, a woman spreads hemp fibers on the floor to dry. Sun hemp is grown for fibers and the fibers are used for making ropes, weaving baskets, and many other things.
- Format: image/photograph
- Experimental archaeology: Making cordage
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 2.8
- Students will make cordage and use an activity sheet to experience a technique and skill that ancient Native Americans in North Carolina needed for everyday life. They will also compute the amount of time and materials that might have been required to make cordage and construct a scientific inquiry to study the contents of an archaeological site.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8–12 Visual Arts Education and Social Studies)
- Intrigue of the Past
- Lesson plans and essays for teachers and students explore North Carolina's past before European contact. Designed for grades four through eight, the web edition of this book covers fundamental concepts, processes, and issues of archaeology, and describes the peoples and cultures of the Paleoindian, Archaic, Woodland, and Mississippian periods.
- Format: book (multiple pages)
- Thomas Jefferson on manufacturing and commerce
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 2.2
- Excerpt from Thomas Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia (1781) in which he argues that the United States should remain an agricultural nation. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: book
- Naval stores and the longleaf pine
- In Colonial North Carolina, page 6.4
- North Carolina's extensive longleaf pine forests provided the natural resources needed to produce materials needed to build and maintain ships -- not only timber but tar, pitch, and rosin. These "naval stores" became North Carolina's most important indusstry in the eighteenth century, but today, the longleaf pine forests are nearly gone.
- Format: article
- By David Walbert.
- The tabasco water heater and hot water in Biltmore House
- In A technological tour of the Biltmore Estate, page 7
- Introduction to the boiler room Although this room is called the Boiler Room, a number of interesting features relating to various technologies can be seen here, including the elevator controller and modern DC generator. The platform and wire cage...
- By Sue Clark McKendree.
