How Things Work: Everyday Technology Explained - Hardcover

 
9780792255697: How Things Work: Everyday Technology Explained

Synopsis

How Things Work - Everyday Technology Explained - John Langone (NGS) Published by the National Geographic Society (1999) Hardcover - 192 pages (Tall) ISBN 0-7922-5569-0 - UPC 9 780792 255697 From basic principles to the most sophisticated technologies, here are the answers you've always wondered about, explained in clear, concise terms, and illustrated in more than 150 photographs and renderings that demystify power stations and plastics, supersonic planes and sailboats, computer chips and laser surgery, light bulbs, microscopes, telescopes--and much, much more.

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