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

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