Cómo funcionan las cosas

Format:

Book

Title:

Cómo funcionan las cosas

Uniform Title:

Way things work. Spanish

Author:

Macaulay, David.

ISBN:

9789500821100

Publication Information:

Buenos Aires : Editorial Atlántida, 1999.

Physical Description:

399 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm

General Note:

"A Dorling Kindersley book"--Title page verso

Includes index.

Summary:

"De la palanca al láser, del automóvil al ordenador, una guía básica para entender el mundo de las máquinas"--Cover.

Text and numerous detailed illustrations introduce and explain the scientific principles and workings of hundreds of machines including a lawn sprinkler, pneumatic drill, electric guitar, and a smoke detector.

Subject(s):

Technology -- Popular works.

Machinery -- Popular works.

Genre:

Popular works.

Added Author:

Ardley, Neil.

Holds:

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Library	Call Number	Status
Searching... Silver Falls Library	600 MACAULAY	Searching... Unknown

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Summary

Un libro sorprendente, de facil comprension, instructivo y ameno, para todas las edades. Del holograma al hovercraft, del paracaidas al parquimetro, el autor, distinguido con numerosos premios, ha creado una brillante obra sobre los principios y el funcionamiento de cientos de maquinas.

Author Notes

David Macaulay was born on December 2, 1946 in Lancashire, England, but moved to Bloomfield, New Jersey when he was 11. He received a bachelor's degree in architecture from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). Before becoming an author and illustrator, he worked as an interior designer, a junior high school teacher, and instructor of interior design at RISD from 1969 to 1973.

His first book, Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction, was published in 1973. His other books include City, Castle, Pyramid, Mill, Underground, Mosque, The Way Things Work, Rome Antics, Shortcut,and How Machines Work. He has received numerous awards including a Caldecott Honor Medal in 1991 for Black and White and the Washington Children's Book Guild Award for a Body of Non-Fiction Work in 1977. He won the Royal Society young people¿s book prize for the best science books for children for his book How Machines Work.

(Bowker Author Biography)