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First How Things Work Encyclopedia: A First Reference Guide for Inquisitive Minds (DK First Reference)

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Publisher
DK Children
Year
2019
Tongue
English
Leaves
138
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

Looking at the technology all around us-and then explaining how it works, the How Things Work Encyclopedia lifts the hood of a car engine, gets inside a TV set, and discovers the power of invisible microwaves. With close-ups, cutaways, and diagrams bringing the technology to life, and timelines illustrating the development of inventions, challenging curiosity quizzes and fascinating facts, the How Things Work Encyclopedia lets children really see and understand what's going on inside.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
TECHNOLOGY
Inventions
Better by design
Early inventions
Modern technology
Technology all around us
HARD AT WORK
Simple machines
Using levers
On the work site
Moving stuff
GETTING AROUND
Getting around
Wheels and axles
Pedal power
Holding the road
Crank it up
Engines of fire
Race cars
Up to speed
Powering up
Trains and tracks
GASES AND LIQUIDS
Gases and liquids
How fluids work
Float that boat
Floating balloons
Roller coaster
How do planes fly?
Blast off!
WHAT IS ENERGY?
What is energy?
It’s electric!
The power of magnets
Power plants
Fossil fuels
Renewable energy
What’s cooking?
Keeping cool
Energy efficiency
LIGHT AND SOUND
Light and sound
Now you see it…
Light and bubbles
Mirror, Mirror
Lenses
How light works
Fireworks
Measuring sound
How ears hear
Electric guitar
DIGITAL WORLD
Chips and codes
Inside a computer
Binary code
Sharing data
Cell phones
Digital photography
Radio and TV
Bar codes
The Internet
Search engines
Robots
CUTTIING-EDGE TECHNOLOGY
The future
Anytime soon?
REFERENCE SECTION
True or false?
Quiz
What am I?
Where in the world?
Glossary
Index
Picture credits

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