Synopsis
To help make sense of the computer age, David Macaulay brings
us The New Way Things Work. This completely updated and
expanded edition describes twelve new machines and includes
more than seventy new pages detailing the latest innovations.
With an entirely new section that guides us through the
complicated world of digital machinery, where masses of
electronic information can be squeezed onto a single tiny
microchip, this revised edition embraces all of the newest
developments, from cars to watches. Each scientific principle
is brilliantly explained--with the help of a charming, if
rather slow-witted, woolly mammoth.
David Macaulay is the well-known author and illustrator if
many exciting and unusual books for readers of all ages. He
graduated from and later taught at the Rhode Island School of
Design. He lives in Rhode Island.