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The Way Things Work is a 1988 nonfiction book by David Macaulay with technical text by Neil Ardley. It is a whimsical introduction to everyday machines and the scientific principles behind their operation, describing machines as simple as levers and gears and as complicated as radio telescopes and automatic transmissions .
The Way Things Work was a short-lived children's television series based on the best-selling book of the same name by David Macaulay. The series was co-produced by Millimages , Pearson Broadband , and Schlessinger Media ; it was distributed by the latter.
David Macaulay (born 2 December 1946) [1] is a British-born American illustrator and writer. His works include Cathedral (1973), The Way Things Work (1988), and its updated revisions The New Way Things Work (1998) and The Way Things Work Now (2016).
The premise of using woolly mammoths as a teaching tool for the principles of technology was inspired by The Way Things Work, a book by David Macaulay. [3] Cro was created with the help of a developmental psychologist, Dr. Susan Mendelsohn, and its educational content was heavily researched. According to the Children's Television Workshop ...
Building Big is a book written by David Macaulay, author of the book series The Way Things Work. Published in 2000, the book details the design of about 25 famous structures, broken down into five categories: Bridges, Tunnels, Dams, Domes, and Skyscrapers. The buildings cover construction from Roman times to the modern era.
Frederick Winslow Taylor (March 20, 1856 – March 21, 1915) was an American mechanical engineer.He was widely known for his methods to improve industrial efficiency. [1] He was one of the first management consultants. [2]
The Way Things Work: Diego Zamora: 26 × 13 min: 2002: 2D / 3D Corneil and Bernie, Season 1: Albert Pereira Lazaro: 52 × 13 min: 2003: 2D Da Möb: Philippe Balmossière: 26 × 26 min: 2001: 2D Louie Draw Me!, Season 1: Frédéric Mège, Frédérick Chaillou: 39 × 7 min: 2006: 2D Louie Draw Me!, Season 2: Frédérick Chaillou: 39 × 7 min ...
Mind projection fallacy – Informal fallacy that the way one sees the world reflects the way the world really is; Motivated reasoning – Using emotionally-biased reasoning to produce justifications or make decisions; Observational error, also known as Systematic bias – Difference between a measured value of a quantity and its true value