How Technology Works (How Things Work)

Brilliant book, very informative for children and adults alike!

What makes this a stand out book is the illustrations and the comprehensiveness. You can always read information online about how things work, but the illustrations give you an inside view of the various components which makes it much easier to see how it all works and fits together. It also covers a wide range of technologies.

Very interesting book for children. I'd recommend for 11-14yrs.

With a strong Physics and Engineering background everything gets REALLY complex and mathematical very quickly when trying to explain some of the concepts. What this style of books does is remind you of some of the basic principles without maths, allowing me to talk to my kids about the things in science that I'm passionate about. Some of the topics are a little skimmed over, but to be fair they still explain the importance of the ideas. We have the Physics, Technology, and Maths books. All a great style, easily accessible and my 11YO daughter can happily browse without help as the writing style is perfect for her Harry Potter level lexicon. Across the 3 books we have, some highlights: Maths: Fourier analysis (weak explanation but conveys the message well), Group theory and the rubix cube, number theory and development. Technology: Central Heating systems, Helicopters, Lasers, The Internet, Locks, hydraulics Physics: Quantum field theory (written SO well), nuclear power and bombs, Relatviity As I said, some incredibly important topics that permeate or lives but kids never get access too until they're grown ups. These books help provide the context for amazing scientific and mathematical discoveries. Stay with me here, but I believe that scientific fields have now advanced so far into areas completely inaccessible to the lay person that a sense of distrust and knowledge elitism has overwhelmed the amazing work our human society is doing. So what these books do amazingly well is help to bridge this gap, and help any reader to feel like the topics are more inclusive to them. And this is what great writing and education is all about. (Sorry, rant over).

Wonderfully illustrated. Has many modern applications and would be of interest to any student or person interested in knowing how things do work.

The little man loves it and has been reading it since. Lots of illustrations explaining each topic, written in easy to understand text language, which makes it an engaging book for all.

Promptly delivered, and replied to my email. The file is PDF format, which the "Apple Books reader" (white open book on an orange background) stores in a seperate folder. But it is stored on the device, and works perfectly. You can put it on multiple devices. Best of all is the price - just over £2, Oct 2023 !!

A good general explanation of many types of technology although it does dump you in the deep end at first then goes on to explain things well with clear diagrams. My major criticism is that it's very difficult to read on a Kindle because the screen's refresh rate is too slow for the many diagrams and you have to zoom in to read the small text. However, using the kindle app on an iPad does render it readable.