technology

Presents color-illustrated descriptions of how 135 items and processes work, explaining the science and technology behind such things as diesel engines, blue screen special effects, Christmas lights, and helium balloons.

Highlights milestones in agriculture, astronomy, biology, chemistry, communications, computers, earth sciences, energy, mathematics, medicine, physics, and transportation from prehistory to the present.

Provides an overview of how the entertainment industry is being revolutionized by new developments in electronics such as digital wide-screen television, laser disc players, computer movies, and interactive CD-ROM.

Explains in layman's terms how many of the technological amenities of modern life work, including television set, Xerox machine, escalator, microwave oven, submarine, laser, and hovercraft.

An introduction to the achievements of ancient China.

A computer-age visionary argues that the Internet has failed to live up to its early promises, sharing cautionary perspectives on the Web 2.0 design concept while optimistically evaluating the Internet as a positive cultural vehicle.

Applying their unique inventing talents to the creation of highly technological economic systems, Perry and Lester transform the country only to suffer a bust from which they recover by inventing interactive rides throughout the nation's Wal-Marts.

Includes: Tower of Babel, Pyramids, Great Wall of China, Roman Roads, Palace of Versailles, Transatlantic Cable, Transcontinental Railway, Eiffel Tower and Panama Canal.

A collection of scientific ideas, facts, and fantasy from twenty-six classic episodes of "The Simpsons.".