How It Works. Book of Amazing Technology PDF
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ENGINEERING ENTERTAINMENT DOMESTIC COMPUTING GADGETS INVENTIONS How do games consoles work? What’s inside Does a roller coaster a haul truck? defy gravity? How does a pistol work? Can an eco bulb save energy? What are motion sensors? TM BOOK OF What’s inside a DSLR? TECHNOLOGY EEEEEEEvvvvvvveeeeeeerrrrrrryyyyyyyttttttthhhhhhhiiiiiiinnnnnnnggggggg yyyyyyyooooooouuuuuuu nnnnnnneeeeeeeeeeeeeeddddddd tttttttooooooo kkkkkkknnnnnnnooooooowwwwwww aaaaaaabbbbbbbooooooouuuuuuuttttttt ttttttthhhhhhheeeeeee wwwwwwwooooooorrrrrrrlllllllddddddd’’’’’’’sssssss bbbbbbbeeeeeeesssssssttttttt ttttttteeeeeeeccccccchhhhhhh The science How do lighthouses of bladeless save lives? technology What’s behind a touch screen? INSIDE: 8 500 , AMAZING FACTS What’s in a laser beam? TM BOOK OF TECHNOLOGY Everything you need to know about the world’s best tech TM AmBOaOkz OFing TECHNOLOGY Imagine Publishing Ltd Richmond House 33 Richmond Hill Bournemouth Dorset BH2 6EZ % +44 (0) 1202 586200 Website: www.imagine-publishing.co.uk Editor in Chief Dave Harfield Production Editor Helen Laidlaw Design Danielle Dixon, Duncan Crooke Photo Studio Studio equipment courtesy of Lastolite (www.lastolite.co.uk) Printed by William Gibbons, 26 Planetary Road, Willenhall, West Midlands, WV13 3XT Distributed in the UK & Eire by Imagine Publishing Ltd, www.imagineshop.co.uk. Tel 01202 586200 Distributed in Australia by Gordon & Gotch, Equinox Centre, 18 Rodborough Road, Frenchs Forest, NSW 2086. Tel + 61 2 9972 8800 Distributed in the Rest of the World by Marketforce, Blue Fin Building, 110 Southwark Street, London, SE1 0SU Disclaimer The publisher cannot accept responsibility for any unsolicited material lost or damaged in the post. 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HIW Book of Amazing Technology © 2011 Imagine Publishing Ltd ISBN 978-1-908222 0 84 The How It Works Book Of Amazing Technology 74 PlayStation 3 Engineering 76 Internet television Domestic 10 M assive mining machines explained 82 Dyson Airblade Extraction on a grand scale Discover the tech that means you can 16 MRI scanner dry your hands in seconds 18 Elevators/lifts 84 Hairdryers 18 Circular saws 84 Yale locks 19 Pile drivers 85 Power drills 20 Roller coasters 86 Pressure cookers 24 Offshore oil rigs 86 Water fi lters 26 Rail guns 86 Can openers 27 Cranes 87 Pianos 28 Renewable energy 88 Flexfoot Cheetah Alternatives to fossil fuels 89 Powercube transformers 32 Coal mining 89 Touch-sensitive lamps 34 Bullet proof glass 90 Kettles 34 Milking machines 90 Eco-friendly bulbs 35 Side winder missiles How do they differ from normal bulbs? 36 Hydro electric dams 91 Fire extinguishers 38 Bowling alleys 92 Dyson Air Multiplier 38 Manufacturing optical fi bre 94 Cigarette lighters 39 Lighthouses 94 Weighing scales 40 Nuclear power 95 Refrigerators 44 Semiautomatic pistols Space 96 Burglar alarms 103 46 Megastructures 96 Electric toothbrushes Entertainment 97 Clock mechanisms Water sprinklers 98 Online groceries 52 Motion-control gaming 192 How motion sensors are changing the 99 Water coolers way we play games 99 Batteries Wild West weaponry 58 Apple TV 100 Vacuum fl asks 60 OLEDs How to keep hot things hot 61 Pinball machines 100 Cycle helmets 62 Nintendo DS 101 Sky player History 64 Slot machines 102 Aerosol sprays 65 Electric guitars 102 Double glazing 66 Xbox 360 103 Sprinklers 68 Audio reproduction 103 Ball cocks 72 Auto tuning software 104 Pencils Can’t sing. No problem! 104 Central heating 72 IMAX cinemas 105 Air conditioning 73 Green screen 105 Beer widgets 006 132 164 Skype 164 Optical zooms 165 Remote control helicopters How the world’s fastest 166 Camera lenses 168 Motorola smartphones computers work 170 N oise-cancelling headphones How to listen to music in peace 170 Infrared watches 171 Phone chargers 171© N Maseatal detectors 172 Apple smartphones Inventions 178 Mark I tanks A common sight on the WWII battlefield 180 Guillotines 180 Typewriters 181 Wright Flyer 181 V2 Rocket 182 Blast furnaces 182 Ancient earthquake detectors 183 First razors 184 M odel T Ford The birth of mass production cars? 105 Staplers 132 Superfast computers 186 First television 106 Toasters 136 PayPal 186 First telephone 106 Smoke alarms 137 Web hosting 187 First computer 107 Barcodes 138 Social networks 188 Anderson shelters 107 Washing machines Gadgets 188 Floppy disks 107 Pet ID tags 144 Tablet computers 189 Windmills 108 Sewage treatments What goes on beneath the touch screen? 190 First mechanical calculator Computing 148 Radar 190 Early ploughs 148 Digital sound 112 Spotify 190 Self-heating food cans Music download systems explained 148 Geiger counters 191 1 804 steam locomotive 114 Superfast broadband 149 DVD burning The power of steam in practice 118 QR codes 149 Night vision 192 Weapons of the wild west 118 Electronic ink 150 eBook readers 194 Gramophones 119 Firewalls 152 Blu-ray 194 Dynamo generators 119 IBM Roadrunner How does a Blu-ray disc work? 195 Tesla coil 152 Holograms 120 MacBook Pros 196 Bicycles 153 DSLR cameras 197 The wheel 122 Wi-Fi 154 Electronic hearing aids 198 Concorde 122 USB drives 154 Bluetooth 200 Astrolabes 123 App creation 155 Connected GPS Ancient astronomy 124 Mobile internet The next-generation of mobile networks 156 BlackBerry smartphones 200 Ancient wells explained and explored 158 Clockwork radios 201 Looms 128 Data centres 158 Microphones 201 Cannons 130 Fibre optic internet 159 Electric cigarettes 202 Sea mines 130 Phishing 159 Polygraph tests 202 Mechanical music boxes 131 Facial recognition 160 3 D digital cameras 203 Atari 26 131 USB 3.0 Achieving real 3D on your camera 204 Man of War 007 G N R I E E N G I N E Incredible tech that’s changed the world 36 How water can generate power 20 10 Massive mining Roller machines coasters explained explained Learn how these behemoths work 16 MRI scanner The medical wonders that can get inside your head 18 Elevators/lifts What goes up must come down, and we see how! 18 Circular saws 26 R ail guns 34 Bullet proof Behind the blade that can Explaining how these glass cut down a tree machines can be used The incredible 19 Pile drivers material that can 27 C ranes Driving down into the save a person’s life Reaching heights man can’t ground with ease quite get to 34 M ilking machines 20 R oller coasters 28 The tech that gets it from cow to Renewable The science behind these kitchen table energy exhilarating rides Discover the ways 35 S ide winder missiles 24 Offshore we’re trying to save The deadly missiles that can oil rigs the planet track and trace The life and 32 C oal mining 36 H ydroelectric dams technology behind Going underground in Learn how to generate these essential rigs search of coal electricity using water 008 ENGINEERING 39 Learn about lighthouses 38 Go behind a bowling alley 40 A look at 16 nuclear Inside power an MRI scanner 38 40 Bowling Nuclear alleys power See how the pins The controversial fall down and get technology back up again explained 38 M anufacturing 44 S emiautomatic optical fi bre pistols This minute tech that has Learn how these guns changed the world shoot a bullet 39 L ighthouses 46 M egastructures 24 Showing you your way Explaining giant when you’re out at sea construction Life on an oil rig 009 ENGINEERING Massive mining machines MASSIVE mining machines The world is still primarily reliant on around. It’s diffi cult to get your head around just how fossil fuels for energy generation. vast these massive tools are – not to mention the sheer With billions of people across the amount of fossil fuels they extract each and every day, globe, this means the demands that around the clock. are placed on the mining industry are They may cost tens of millions of pounds, and last nc. huge. Extracting these fossil fuels as effi ciently as for decades, but when it comes down to it they are still nal I humanly possible is of utmost importance, and for controlled by a human being. The principles they use natio best effi ciency and ability to meet this demand, you will be familiar to those who have driven past nter need scale. And the fi ve machines featured across the roadworks or looked closely at a building site. It’s just us I next six pages defi nitely fi t the bill scale. This is huge- that they are enlarged to dimensions to take your ucyr scale engineering that you can barely get your head breath away. Read on to fi nd out how they work. B © 010
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