HOW TECHNOLOGY WORKS: The Facts Visually Explained

In their gloriously visual style of design, the publishers DK provide the simplest most visual guide to technology ever. Have you ever wondered how a smartphone knows which way is up or how a driverless car avoids crashes, or how virtual reality works? We live in an age of amazing discoveries and inventions that are transforming our lives, but we have also come to depend on technologies that many of us don't understand. Categorised under Power Technology, Transport, Materials and Construction, Technology in the Home, Sound and Vision, Computer Technology, Communications, Farming and Food and Medical, at a glance you are astonished by how much has changed in the past few decades. Power stations, electricity supply, nuclear and wind power, batteries and solar energy and bioenergy, speed cameras and radar, jet engines and rockets, space probes and drones; concrete, plastic, composites, nanotechnology, 3D printing, skyscrapers and cranes; microwave ovens, toilets and washing machines; digital sound, electric lighting, lasers and holograms; computers and how they work, artificial intelligence, how robots work and what they can do and virtual reality; satellite navigation, the Internet and World Wide Web, smartphones, electronic paper and email and Wi-Fi, all brilliantly explained. Plus precision agriculture, sorting and packing, food preservation and genetic modification and in medicine pacemakers, MRI scanning, keyhole surgery, brain implants and assisted fertility among the many topics. For each there are colourful fact boxes, superb diagrams, and sometimes you have to turn the book around to see the full page, brilliant cutaways. Photos, diagrams in colour, all specially commissioned for this book of knowledge. 256 large pages, colour graphics.
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