Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1988 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Sewn binding, laminated pictorial boards, red endpapers, 384 pp, illustrated with color drawings by the author throughout, index. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Macaulay arranges his text according to the physical principles by which devices work, with highly engaging illustrations for each principle and device. The arrangement leads to juxtapositions of inventions that work by similar principles but are vastly different in scale or application--for example the steam turbine in a giant electric power plant works by the same principle as the tiny pneumatic motor in a dentist's drill. Fictional mammoths also are permitted to shove a tusk in to provide some levity. Shipping weight 5 lbs.. . Fine/Fine. 29 X 22½ cm.

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Bookseller: Twin City Antiquarian Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: TEGN00011
Title: The Way Things Work
Author: Macaulay, David
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
ISBN 10: 0395428572
ISBN 13: 9780395428573
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Place of Publication: Boston
Date Published: 1988
Keywords: Technology Reference
Bookseller catalogs: Technical;
X weight: 80 oz
Size: 29 X 22½ cm

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