How technology works / 
Title appears on item as:  DK how technology works 
contributors, Jack Challoner, Clive Gifford, Ian Graham, Wendy Horobin, Andrew Humphreys [and two others]. 
 - 255 pages :  color illustrations ;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/> Includes index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/> Young Adult 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781465479648 1465479643 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Technology.<br/>Engineering.<br/>Innovations.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>600 HOW