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How technology works / contributors, Jack Challoner, Clive Gifford, Ian Graham, Wendy Horobin, Andrew Humphreys [and two others].

Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublisher: New York, New York : DK/Penguin Random House, 2019Description: 255 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Carrier type:
  • volume
Audience:
  • Age group: Late Adolescents
ISBN:
  • 9781465479648
  • 1465479643
Other title:
  • Title appears on item as: DK how technology works
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 600 HOW 23
Contents:
Power technology -- Transportation technology -- Materials and construction technology -- Technology in the home -- Sound and vision technology -- Computer technology -- Communications technology -- Farming and food technology -- Medical technology.
Summary: Demystifies the machinery that keeps the modern world going, from simple objects such as zip fasteners and can openers to the latest, most sophisticated devices of the information age, including smartwatches, personal digital assistants, and driverless cars. It includes inventions that have changed the course of history, like the internal combustion engine, as well as technologies that might hold the key to our future survival, including solar cells and new kinds of farming to feed a growing population.
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Includes index.

Young Adult

Power technology -- Transportation technology -- Materials and construction technology -- Technology in the home -- Sound and vision technology -- Computer technology -- Communications technology -- Farming and food technology -- Medical technology.

Demystifies the machinery that keeps the modern world going, from simple objects such as zip fasteners and can openers to the latest, most sophisticated devices of the information age, including smartwatches, personal digital assistants, and driverless cars. It includes inventions that have changed the course of history, like the internal combustion engine, as well as technologies that might hold the key to our future survival, including solar cells and new kinds of farming to feed a growing population.

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