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The Way Things Work

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The New Way Things Work
The Way Things Work Now
Table of Contents for The New Way Things Work
Publishing history
References

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The Way Things Work is a 1988 children's book by David Macaulay with technical text by Neil Ardley. It is an entertaining introduction to everyday machines, describing machines as simple as levers and gears and as complicated as radio telescopes and automatic transmissions. Every page consists primarily of one or more large diagrams describing the operation of the relevant machine. These diagrams are informative but playful, in that most show the machines operated, used upon, or represented by woolly mammoths, and are accompanied by anecdotes of the mammoths' (fictive) role in the operation. The book's concept was later developed into a short-lived animated TV show (produced by Millimages^[1] and distributed by Schlessinger Media), a Dorling Kindersley interactive CD-ROM, and a board game. A family "ride" involving animatronics and a 3-D film based on the book was one of the original attractions at the San Francisco Metreon, but closed in 2001.

The New Way Things Work

A newer version, The New Way Things Work, released on October 26, 1998, contains additional text on the workings of computers and digital technology. It however also lacks numerous pages of the first edition; among them:

two pages which demonstrated the working of a mechanical coin-operated parking meter
Two pages on the distinction between a calculator and a computer
One page explaining binary arithmetic and logical AND and OR gates
One page explaining the half adder
Two pages explaining the full adder
Two pages explaining the pocket calculator
numerous other pages

The Way Things Work Now

A substantially revised edition, The Way Things Work Now, has been published in October 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Dorling Kindersley.

Table of Contents for The New Way Things Work

Part One—The Mechanics of Movement

Introduction
The Inclined Plane
Levers
The Wheel and Axle
Gears and Belts
Cams and Cranks
Pulleys
Screws
Rotating Wheels
Springs
Friction

Part Two—Harnessing the Elements

Introduction
Floating
Flying
Pressure Power
Exploiting Heat
Nuclear Power

Part Three—Working with Waves

Introduction
Light and Images
Photography

Printing
Sound and Music
Telecommunications

Part Four—Electricity and Automation

Introduction
Electricity
Magnetism
Sensors and Detectors

Part Five—The Digital Domain

Making Binary digits
Storing Bits
Processing Bits
Sending Bits
Using Bits/Digital Systems
Epilogue

Eureka!—The Invention of Machines

Technical TermsIndex

Publishing history

Houghton Mifflin, 1988. {{ISBN|0-395-42857-2}}.
Houghton Mifflin, 1998. {{ISBN|0-395-93847-3}}.
Dorling Kindersley, 2004. {{ISBN|1-4053-0238-0}}.

References

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