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What makes an electric refrigerator cold?
Why is dry cleaning called dry?
How does an electric computer compute?
How Things Work supplies readily-understood answers to all the questions that perplex the layman and puzzle the inquisitive child in the age of the machine. It explains everything from the simplest household gadget to the most complex industrial process: the theory and practice of modern machines and methods from the ball-point pen to the jet engine, from the polaroid camera to radar.
Over a thousand drawings and illustrations, each facing a page of explanatory text, are arranged according to the common principles underlying the machines and processes discussed -- optics, internal combustion, electronics, etc. -- providing a fascinating and concise introduction to all the major sources of modern technology. A full index at the back of the book lists alphabetically all the individual items included.
Whether read in its entirety, dipped into at random, or used simply as a straightforward reference book, How Things Work is an indispensable book for everyone who has ever wondered why a zipper zips, what makes a ship float, how a gyroscope spins.
Now reissued with its companion, How Things Work Volume 2, this series is enormously comprehensive and is certain to become essential equipment in today's technical society in which the gulf between scientist and layman grows ever wider.