Author: Andrew Terranova
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780316479943
Category : DESIGN
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
For anyone curious about the nuts and bolts of human ingenuity, How Things Are Made is a fascinating exploration of the process behind the manufacture of everyday items. What are bulletproof vests made of' How do manufacturers get lipstick into the tube' How many layers are there in an iPhone screen' The answers to these questions and so much more fascinating information can be found in How Things Are Made, a behind-the-scenes look at the production everyday objects of all kinds, from guitars, sunscreen, and seismographs to running shoes, jet engines, and chocolate. Thoroughly revised and redesigned from the best-selling 1995 edition, How Things Are Made also contains three new entries by author Andrew Terranova. However, each page still contains informative step-by-step text along with detailed but easy-to-follow illustrations, diagrams, and sidebars to tell the stories behind the things we sometimes take for granted. For example, did you know that Edison didn't really invent the light bulb' Or that the first bar code was on a pack of Wrigley's Spearmint gum' Or that a maple seed inspired the design for the helicopter' Discover these fascinating anecdotes and much more in How Things Are Made.
How Things Are Made
Author: Andrew Terranova
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal
ISBN: 0316439266
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 543
Book Description
For anyone curious about the nuts and bolts of human ingenuity, How Things Are Made is a fascinating exploration of the process behind the manufacture of everyday items. What are bulletproof vests made of? How do manufacturers get lipstick into the tube? How many layers are there in an iPhone screen? The answers to these questions and so much more fascinating information can be found in How Things Are Made, a behind-the-scenes look at the production everyday objects of all kinds, from guitars, sunscreen, and seismographs to running shoes, jet engines, and chocolate. Thoroughly revised and redesigned from the best-selling 1995 edition, How Things Are Made also contains three new entries by author Andrew Terranova. However, each page still contains informative step-by-step text along with detailed but easy-to-follow illustrations, diagrams, and sidebars to tell the stories behind the things we sometimes take for granted. For example, did you know that Edison didn't really invent the light bulb? Or that the first bar code was on a pack of Wrigley's Spearmint gum? Or that a maple seed inspired the design for the helicopter? Discover these fascinating anecdotes and much more in How Things Are Made.
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal
ISBN: 0316439266
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 543
Book Description
For anyone curious about the nuts and bolts of human ingenuity, How Things Are Made is a fascinating exploration of the process behind the manufacture of everyday items. What are bulletproof vests made of? How do manufacturers get lipstick into the tube? How many layers are there in an iPhone screen? The answers to these questions and so much more fascinating information can be found in How Things Are Made, a behind-the-scenes look at the production everyday objects of all kinds, from guitars, sunscreen, and seismographs to running shoes, jet engines, and chocolate. Thoroughly revised and redesigned from the best-selling 1995 edition, How Things Are Made also contains three new entries by author Andrew Terranova. However, each page still contains informative step-by-step text along with detailed but easy-to-follow illustrations, diagrams, and sidebars to tell the stories behind the things we sometimes take for granted. For example, did you know that Edison didn't really invent the light bulb? Or that the first bar code was on a pack of Wrigley's Spearmint gum? Or that a maple seed inspired the design for the helicopter? Discover these fascinating anecdotes and much more in How Things Are Made.
How Things Are Made
Author: Oldrich Ruzicka
Publisher: Union Square Kids
ISBN: 9781454920854
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
How was this made? Children have always wanted to know the answer to this question--and this fun and eye-catching book provides answers. With six large gatefolds and 26 booklets, it's chock-full of fun facts that take kids through the life cycle of everyday objects like t-shirts, books, bread, chairs, and glassware. Young and inquiring minds will be fascinated, educated, and entertained for hours!
Publisher: Union Square Kids
ISBN: 9781454920854
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
How was this made? Children have always wanted to know the answer to this question--and this fun and eye-catching book provides answers. With six large gatefolds and 26 booklets, it's chock-full of fun facts that take kids through the life cycle of everyday objects like t-shirts, books, bread, chairs, and glassware. Young and inquiring minds will be fascinated, educated, and entertained for hours!
How Things are Made
Author: Arnold B. Ajello
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780870443343
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Activities are organised around themes developed by the book of same title.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780870443343
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Activities are organised around themes developed by the book of same title.
Transformed
Author: Bill Slavin
Publisher: Kids Can Press
ISBN: 9781554532445
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
CDs start out as sand. Blackboard chalk comes from tiny sea creatures. The objects all around us --- every single product in the world --- is made from elements found in nature. Discover how nature is transformed into more than 60 things we eat, drink, play with, wear or use every day. Technology changes constantly, but the stages raw materials go through to become finished objects remain much the same. On every page of this big book, these processes are described and illustrated step by step. The text and artwork combine playfulness with encyclopedic attention to detail. This unique and fascinating book will inform and entertain every step of the way. Includes a glossary, index and further resources to help children, parents and teachers.
Publisher: Kids Can Press
ISBN: 9781554532445
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
CDs start out as sand. Blackboard chalk comes from tiny sea creatures. The objects all around us --- every single product in the world --- is made from elements found in nature. Discover how nature is transformed into more than 60 things we eat, drink, play with, wear or use every day. Technology changes constantly, but the stages raw materials go through to become finished objects remain much the same. On every page of this big book, these processes are described and illustrated step by step. The text and artwork combine playfulness with encyclopedic attention to detail. This unique and fascinating book will inform and entertain every step of the way. Includes a glossary, index and further resources to help children, parents and teachers.
How Things Are Made, Volume 2
Author: Oldrich Ruzicka
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781454929710
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
How Things are Made explores how the internet works, money is produced, computer games are created, cars are built, electricity is generated and homes are constructed through fold-out maps and booklets.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781454929710
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
How Things are Made explores how the internet works, money is produced, computer games are created, cars are built, electricity is generated and homes are constructed through fold-out maps and booklets.
Behind the Scenes: Secrets of How Things Are Made - Book One
Author: Zahid Ameer
Publisher: Zahid Ameer
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Discover the fascinating world of creation with "Behind the Scenes: Secrets of How Things Are Made - Book One." This captivating book unveils the intricate processes and hidden technologies behind everyday objects, modern marvels, and groundbreaking innovations. From the engineering feats behind skyscrapers and the complex design of smartphones to the science of vaccine development and the artistry of filmmaking, this guide offers a deep dive into 50 extraordinary processes. Perfect for curious minds, tech enthusiasts, and anyone eager to learn how the world around them truly works. Gain insights into manufacturing, engineering, technology, and science with clear, engaging explanations. Explore the hidden stories behind the products and infrastructure shaping modern life, and uncover the secrets of human ingenuity and collaboration. Get your copy today to reveal the fascinating secrets behind how things are made!
Publisher: Zahid Ameer
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Discover the fascinating world of creation with "Behind the Scenes: Secrets of How Things Are Made - Book One." This captivating book unveils the intricate processes and hidden technologies behind everyday objects, modern marvels, and groundbreaking innovations. From the engineering feats behind skyscrapers and the complex design of smartphones to the science of vaccine development and the artistry of filmmaking, this guide offers a deep dive into 50 extraordinary processes. Perfect for curious minds, tech enthusiasts, and anyone eager to learn how the world around them truly works. Gain insights into manufacturing, engineering, technology, and science with clear, engaging explanations. Explore the hidden stories behind the products and infrastructure shaping modern life, and uncover the secrets of human ingenuity and collaboration. Get your copy today to reveal the fascinating secrets behind how things are made!
The Man Who Made Things Out of Trees
Author: Robert Penn
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141977523
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Robert Penn cut down an ash tree to see how many things could be made from it. After all, ash is the tree we have made the greatest and most varied use of over the course of human history. Journeying from Wales across Europe and Ireland to the USA, Robert finds that the ancient skills and knowledge of the properties of ash, developed over millennia making wheels and arrows, furniture and baseball bats, are far from dead. The book chronicles how the urge to understand and appreciate trees still runs through us all like grain through wood.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141977523
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Robert Penn cut down an ash tree to see how many things could be made from it. After all, ash is the tree we have made the greatest and most varied use of over the course of human history. Journeying from Wales across Europe and Ireland to the USA, Robert finds that the ancient skills and knowledge of the properties of ash, developed over millennia making wheels and arrows, furniture and baseball bats, are far from dead. The book chronicles how the urge to understand and appreciate trees still runs through us all like grain through wood.
Made Things
Author: Adrian Tchaikovsky
Publisher: Tordotcom
ISBN: 1250232988
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 117
Book Description
Award-winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky's Made Things is dark fantasy tale of how the most unlikely characters may become the most heroic. Making friends has never been so important. Welcome to Fountains Parish--a cesspit of trade and crime, where ambition curls up to die and desperation grows on its cobbled streets like mold on week-old bread. Coppelia is a street thief, a trickster, a low-level con artist. But she has something other thieves don't... tiny puppet-like companions: some made of wood, some of metal. They don't entirely trust her, and she doesn't entirely understand them, but their partnership mostly works. After a surprising discovery shakes their world to the core, Coppelia and her friends must re-examine everything they thought they knew about their world, while attempting to save their city from a seemingly impossible new threat. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Publisher: Tordotcom
ISBN: 1250232988
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 117
Book Description
Award-winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky's Made Things is dark fantasy tale of how the most unlikely characters may become the most heroic. Making friends has never been so important. Welcome to Fountains Parish--a cesspit of trade and crime, where ambition curls up to die and desperation grows on its cobbled streets like mold on week-old bread. Coppelia is a street thief, a trickster, a low-level con artist. But she has something other thieves don't... tiny puppet-like companions: some made of wood, some of metal. They don't entirely trust her, and she doesn't entirely understand them, but their partnership mostly works. After a surprising discovery shakes their world to the core, Coppelia and her friends must re-examine everything they thought they knew about their world, while attempting to save their city from a seemingly impossible new threat. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Fifty Things that Made the Modern Economy
Author: Tim Harford
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1408709139
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Based on the series produced for the BBC World Service Who thought up paper money? How did the contraceptive pill change the face of the legal profession? Why was the horse collar as important for human progress as the steam engine? How did the humble spreadsheet turn the world of finance upside-down? The world economy defies comprehension. A continuously-changing system of immense complexity, it offers over ten billion distinct products and services, doubles in size every fifteen years, and links almost every one of the planet's seven billion people. It delivers astonishing luxury to hundreds of millions. It also leaves hundreds of millions behind, puts tremendous strains on the ecosystem, and has an alarming habit of stalling. Nobody is in charge of it. Indeed, no individual understands more than a fraction of what's going on. How can we make sense of this bewildering system on which our lives depend? From the tally-stick to Bitcoin, the canal lock to the jumbo jet, each invention in Tim Harford's fascinating new book has its own curious, surprising and memorable story, a vignette against a grand backdrop. Step by step, readers will start to understand where we are, how we got here, and where we might be going next. Hidden connections will be laid bare: how the barcode undermined family corner shops; why the gramophone widened inequality; how barbed wire shaped America. We'll meet the characters who developed some of these inventions, profited from them, or were ruined by them. We'll trace the economic principles that help to explain their transformative effects. And we'll ask what lessons we can learn to make wise use of future inventions, in a world where the pace of innovation will only accelerate.
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1408709139
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Based on the series produced for the BBC World Service Who thought up paper money? How did the contraceptive pill change the face of the legal profession? Why was the horse collar as important for human progress as the steam engine? How did the humble spreadsheet turn the world of finance upside-down? The world economy defies comprehension. A continuously-changing system of immense complexity, it offers over ten billion distinct products and services, doubles in size every fifteen years, and links almost every one of the planet's seven billion people. It delivers astonishing luxury to hundreds of millions. It also leaves hundreds of millions behind, puts tremendous strains on the ecosystem, and has an alarming habit of stalling. Nobody is in charge of it. Indeed, no individual understands more than a fraction of what's going on. How can we make sense of this bewildering system on which our lives depend? From the tally-stick to Bitcoin, the canal lock to the jumbo jet, each invention in Tim Harford's fascinating new book has its own curious, surprising and memorable story, a vignette against a grand backdrop. Step by step, readers will start to understand where we are, how we got here, and where we might be going next. Hidden connections will be laid bare: how the barcode undermined family corner shops; why the gramophone widened inequality; how barbed wire shaped America. We'll meet the characters who developed some of these inventions, profited from them, or were ruined by them. We'll trace the economic principles that help to explain their transformative effects. And we'll ask what lessons we can learn to make wise use of future inventions, in a world where the pace of innovation will only accelerate.
Trees to Paper
Author: Inez Snyder
Publisher: Children's Press(CT)
ISBN: 9780516243566
Category : Children's literature, English
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Does chocolate really come from beans? How are crayons made? In this fun and informative series, curious readers will discover how some of their favorite products are made from start to finish.
Publisher: Children's Press(CT)
ISBN: 9780516243566
Category : Children's literature, English
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Does chocolate really come from beans? How are crayons made? In this fun and informative series, curious readers will discover how some of their favorite products are made from start to finish.