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If an article ever needed more, larger photographs it'd be this one. On a related topic, I have a really cool book from the 1970s which contains beautiful cuta

by rwmj 2y ago

If an article ever needed more, larger photographs it'd be this one. On a related topic, I have a really cool book from the 1970s which contains beautiful cutaway drawings of high technology from the era (everything from telephones to Advanced Gas-Cooled Reactors). Edit: How Things Work, Volumes I & II published by Paladdin. There's a borrowable copy of Vol II at the IA: https://archive.org/details/howthingsworkuni00vana/page/n595/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/howthingsworkuni00vana/page/n595... (can't find if they have Vol I).

nbernard 2y ago
How Things Work was published in the US by Simon & Schuster as The Way Things Work: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Technology, which is on the IA: vol 1: https://archive.org/details/waythingsworki00cvan https://archive.org/details/waythingsworki00cvan vol 2: https://archive.org/details/waythingsworki02cvan https://archive.org/details/waythingsworki02cvan
jgrahamc 2y ago
As a child I had the book "What makes it go?" which was full of illustrations of how machines work: https://www.amazon.com/What-Makes-Go-Joe-Kaufman/dp/0600392651 https://www.amazon.com/What-Makes-Go-Joe-Kaufman/dp/06003926...
- mhandley 2y ago
  There's a blast from the past - I had that book too and absolutely loved it. I'm glad I grew up in an era when a child had some hope of thinking they could understand all the technology around them (even though with hindsight, I know that knowledge was extremely superficial).
- itishappy 2y ago
  Anybody here have "The Way Things Work" or "The New Way Things Work"? Haven't opened it in 20 years, but I don't think I've poured over a book the same way since. https://www.amazon.com/Way-Things-Work-David-Macaulay/dp/0395428572 https://www.amazon.com/Way-Things-Work-David-Macaulay/dp/039... https://www.amazon.com/New-Way-Things-Work/dp/0395938473 https://www.amazon.com/New-Way-Things-Work/dp/0395938473

by rwmj 2y ago

nbernard 2y ago

How Things Work was published in the US by Simon & Schuster as The Way Things Work: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Technology, which is on the IA: vol 1: https://archive.org/details/waythingsworki00cvan https://archive.org/details/waythingsworki00cvan vol 2: https://archive.org/details/waythingsworki02cvan https://archive.org/details/waythingsworki02cvan

jgrahamc 2y ago

As a child I had the book "What makes it go?" which was full of illustrations of how machines work: https://www.amazon.com/What-Makes-Go-Joe-Kaufman/dp/0600392651 https://www.amazon.com/What-Makes-Go-Joe-Kaufman/dp/06003926...

mhandley 2y ago
There's a blast from the past - I had that book too and absolutely loved it. I'm glad I grew up in an era when a child had some hope of thinking they could understand all the technology around them (even though with hindsight, I know that knowledge was extremely superficial).
itishappy 2y ago
Anybody here have "The Way Things Work" or "The New Way Things Work"? Haven't opened it in 20 years, but I don't think I've poured over a book the same way since. https://www.amazon.com/Way-Things-Work-David-Macaulay/dp/0395428572 https://www.amazon.com/Way-Things-Work-David-Macaulay/dp/039... https://www.amazon.com/New-Way-Things-Work/dp/0395938473 https://www.amazon.com/New-Way-Things-Work/dp/0395938473