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The New Way Things Work (Paperback)
by David Macaulay (Author)
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Product details
  • Paperback: 400 pages
  • Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd; 2Rev Ed edition (10 Aug 1998)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0751356433
  • ISBN-13: 978-0751356434
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 148,248 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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    #2 in  Books > Science & Nature > Popular Science > Communications Technology

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  • Other Editions: Hardcover (CD-Rom) |  CD-ROM  |  All Editions


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Amazon.co.uk Review
"Is it a fact--or have I dreamt it--that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time?" If you, like Nathaniel Hawthorne, are kept up at night wondering about how things work--from electricity to can openers--then you and your favourite kids shouldn't be a moment longer without David Macaulay's The New Way Things Work. The award-winning author-illustrator--a former architect and high school teacher--is perfectly poised to be the Great Explainer of the whirrings and whizzings of the world of machines, a talent that landed the 1988 version of The Way Things Work on the New York Times bestsellers list for 50 weeks. Grouping machines together by the principles that govern their actions rather than by their uses, Macaulay helps us understand in a heavily visual, humorous, unerringly precise way what gadgets such as a toilet, a carburettor and a fire extinguisher have in common.

The New Way Things Work boasts a richly illustrated 80-page section that wrenches us all (including the curious, bumbling woolly mammoth who ambles along with the reader) into the digital age of modems, digital cameras, compact disks, bits, and bytes. Readers can glory in gears in "The Mechanics of Movement," investigate flying in "Harnessing the Elements," demystify the sound of music in "Working with Waves," marvel at magnetism in "Electricity & Automation," and examine e-mail in "The Digital Domain." An illustrated survey of significant inventions closes the book, along with a glossary of technical terms, and an index. What possible link could there be between zips and ploughs, dentist drills and windmills? Parking meters and meat grinders, jumbo jets and jackhammers, remote control and rockets, electric guitars and egg beaters? Macaulay demystifies them all. (Ages 9 to adult)

Synopsis
Guiding the reader through the complicated world of digital machines, where masses of electronic information can be squeezed onto a single tiny microchip, this book covers the latest technological developments. Each principle is explained with the help of a rather slow-witted, wooly mammoth.


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