How Technology Works: From Monster Trucks to Mars Rovers

Get inside the machinery of the modern world and understand the science that makes it all work with this all-in-one encyclopedia. This detailed encyclopedia guides kids through the technology that surrounds them, from what's going on beneath the street to the inside of a nuclear storage facility or the crew capsule atop a Moon rocket. Starting with technology at work inside the human body, the book moves through cities and factories before blasting off into space.

• Important insights into the science that makes machinery work, explained accessibly for ages 9-12
• Zoom-ins, pull-outs, cutaways, and sequences that reveal hidden features and explain how things work
• Technology at every scale, from the human body to an electric scooter to a national power grid