- Technology, Popular works, Apparatuur, Machines
Text and numerous detailed illustrations introduce and explain the scientific principles and workings of hundreds of machines. Includes new material about digital technology.
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- cooloverwhelming
- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
- sparerichly built
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- Author
- David Macaulay
- First published
- 1988
- Pages
- 384
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin, DK Interactive Learning, DORLING KINDERSLEY
- Editions
- 26
- Language
- English, Korean, Spanish, Chinese
- ISBN
- 9780395938478
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David Macaulay (born 2 December 1946) is a British-born American illustrator and writer. His works include Cathedral (1973), The Way Things Work (1988) and The New Way Things Work (1998). His illustrations have been featured in nonfiction books combining text and illustrations explaining architecture, design and engineering, and he has written a number of children's fiction books. Macaulay was a 2006 recipient of a MacArthur Fellows Program award and received the Caldecott Medal in 1991 for Black and White (1990). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Macaulay
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