How It Works: Dealing in Simple Language with Steam, Electricity, Light, Heat, Sound, Hydraulics, Optics, etc.
Archibald Williams
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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How the ordinary machinery of the world works: the steam engine and the turbine, the telephone and wireless, the talking-machine, railway brakes and signals, the microscope and the magic-lantern, explained with diagrams and no equations. Archibald Williams wrote for readers who wanted to understand what they saw every day. It is a snapshot of Edwardian technology, taken by someone who had opened all of it. Its 142 original illustrations have been carefully restored and coloured for this edition.
How the ordinary machinery of the world works: the steam engine and the turbine, the telephone and wireless, the talking-machine, railway brakes and signals, the microscope and the magic-lantern, explained with diagrams and no equations. Archibald Williams wrote for readers who wanted to understa...
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Archibald Williams (1871–1934) wrote about engines, bridges, wireless and the workshop for boys who wanted to know how things were made, in an age when a schoolboy could still take the back off most of them.
Archibald Williams (1871–1934) wrote about engines, bridges, wireless and the workshop for boys who wanted to know how things were made, in an age when a schoolboy could still take the back off most of them.
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