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The Way Things Work

  • David Macaulay

4.22

9 ratings

Text and numerous detailed illustrations introduce and explain the scientific principles and workings of hundreds of machines. Includes new material about digital technology.

Genres

  • Technology
  • Popular works
  • Apparatuur
  • Machines
  • Werking
  • Long Now Manual for Civilization
  • Juvenile literature
  • Technology, juvenile literature
  • Inventions
  • Inventions, juvenile literature
  • nyt:young-adult-hardcover=2016-10-23
  • New York Times bestseller
  • Technological innovations
  • Machinery
  • Technogy
  • Tecnologia
  • Mechanics, juvenile literature
  • Mechanics
  • Reference books
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About the author

  • David Macaulay

    born 2 December 1946

    4.11

    27 ratings · 97 works

Editions

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    Colour Library Books, DORLING KINDERSLEY

    1992

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    Houghton Mifflin

    1988

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    Houghton Mifflin

    1988

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    Dorling Kindersley, Dorling Kindersley Children's

    1988

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Larousse

February 7, 2003

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    Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd

    Sep 29, 1994

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    Houghton Mifflin

    Jan 01, 1988

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    2Rev Ed edition

    Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd

    May 6, 2004

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    Clarion Books

    May 2 2023

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    Clarion Books

    May 2 2023

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    Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

    2016

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    Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

    2016

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    Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd

    Aug 10, 1998

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    Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd

    May 14, 1998

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    Houghton Mifflin Co.

    1998

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    Editorial Atlántida

    1988

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    Wan li ji gou chu ban yu xian gong si

    1994

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    Chu ban

    Mao tou ying chu ban she

    1994

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    Guild Publishing

    1988

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    Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd

    January 1, 1994

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    Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd

    September 25, 1997

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    Simon & Schuster

    October 18, 1988

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    2016

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    DK MULTIMEDIA

    September 15, 1997

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    Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd

    October 18, 1999

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    DK Interactive Learning

    March 15, 1998