Way Things Work

Way Things Work

by David Macaulay, Neil Ardley, Jack Challoner (Revised Text)
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
5th Edition, ©2023, ISBN: 9780544824386
Hardcover, 408 pages
Price: $35.00

Back to the original title, this classic, best-selling, award winning book is a comprehensive, instructive, and entertaining reference for readers of all ages. Follow the wooly mammoth through this brilliantly conceived guide to the principles and workings of hundreds of machines—now updated to include a few more from the digital age.

This edition is not a whole lot different than the title The Way Things Work Now, with a few pages rearranged, some slightly updated, and just four new spreads. These cover:

  • Reusable launchers (pp. 166-167)
  • Lidar: light detection and ranging (pp. 310-311)
  • Cyber Security (pp. 360-361)
  • Motion Capture (pp. 372-373)
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