How Everything Works - Lonely Planet Kids

Featuring the beautifully detailed illustrations of James Gulliver Hancock, How Everything Works will take a close-up look at the world around us to examine well-known, everyday environments and reveal how all the various objects and machines found there operate.

Full-page gatefolds showcase large, dense scenes while smaller flaps can be opened to uncover the secrets of the latest gizmos and gadgets.  Explore a home, a building site, a factory, a shopping mall, an office and a busy street; find out how a car, a computer, a conveyor belt and mobile phone work, and much more!

Contents includes:

• A History of Things: watch as a street changes through time
• Down on the Farm: from tractors to combine harvesters and wind turbines
• At the Construction Site: mix cement, dig underground, and then look upward to cranes and skyscrapers
• Staying in Touch: connect through mobile phones, wireless tech and satellite communications
• Getting Around - local: hit the road with cars, buses, bicycles, motorbikes and even electric vehicles
• Getting Around - long distance: jump aboard trains, planes and boats
• In the Home: the inner workings of washing machines, lightbulbs and electricity
• At the Office: computers, photocopiers, air con
• Entertainment: from rollercoasters to video games
• Shopping: scan barcodes and watch CCTV
• At the Factory: from assembly lines to automation, robots and fork-lift trucks
• At the hospital: uncover modern medicine