TY - BOOK AU - Challoner,Jack AU - Gifford,Clive AU - Graham,Ian TI - How technology works SN - 9781465479648 U1 - 600 HOW 23 PY - 2019/// CY - New York, New York PB - DK/Penguin Random House KW - Technology KW - Engineering KW - Innovations N1 - Includes index; 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; Young Adult N2 - 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 ER -