How It Works delivers exactly what its title promises: the steam engine, the dynamo, the telephone, the camera, the motor car and dozens of other Edwardian marvels, each opened up by Archibald Williams so ‘the man in the street’ could see the physics turning inside.
It is a snapshot of technology at the moment it conquered daily life, explained with contagious enthusiasm. Download the free EPUB and see how the machine age understood itself.