Today’s world is driven by technology. It’s changed the way we communicate over mobile phones and the Internet, the way we travel in hybrid cars and on hoverboards, the way we build high skyscrapers and underground metro systems, and the way we...
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Your complete guide to understanding how gadgets, gizmos and everyday devices work. From the people behind the best-selling How it Works...
Whether they’re trucks, cars, boats, planes or the huge haulers that carry goods around the world every day, machines are fascinating. There are some that are even more incredible than others – the biggest, fastest, longest, tallest, or just...
Your complete guide to understanding how gadgets, gizmos and everyday devices work. From the people behind the best-selling How it Works...
Your complete guide to understanding how gadgets, gizmos and everyday devices work. From the people behind the best-selling How it Works...
From supersonic jets and rocket-powered planes to massive ocean liners and underwater cars, this book is packed with the most incredible machines on the planet. Learn about the amazing engineering behind some of the world’s fastest vehicles, and...
Since the outbreak of the First World War more than 100 years ago, the technology powering the world’s military forces has evolved at an unprecedented pace. The introduction of the first tanks during the Great War marked the start of an arms race...
The history of human aviation spans over a hundred years, from the first manned flight of the Wright Flyer in 1903, which flew a groundbreaking 260 metres, to the futuristic spacecraft of today that shuttle astronauts and payloads to the...
Robots are awesome, in every sense of the word, invoking reactions from excitement to fear to awe. As scientists continue to find new ways to replicate human behaviours, and machines perform functions that we never thought they could, they become...
This book celebrates some of history’s greatest minds, whose intelligence and perseverance has helped shape the modern world. They are by no means the only great inventors in history, but within these pages you’ll meet some of the most iconic...