rwmj4 months ago
If an article ever needed more, larger photographs it'd be this one.
On a related topic, I have a really cool book from the 1970s which contains beautiful cutaway drawings of high technology from the era (everything from telephones to Advanced Gas-Cooled Reactors). Edit: How Things Work, Volumes I & II published by Paladdin. There's a borrowable copy of Vol II at the IA: https://archive.org/details/howthingsworkuni00vana/page/n595... (can't find if they have Vol I).
jgrahamc4 months ago
As a child I had the book "What makes it go?" which was full of illustrations of how machines work: https://www.amazon.com/What-Makes-Go-Joe-Kaufman/dp/06003926...
itishappy4 months ago
Anybody here have "The Way Things Work" or "The New Way Things Work"?
Haven't opened it in 20 years, but I don't think I've poured over a book the same way since.
https://www.amazon.com/Way-Things-Work-David-Macaulay/dp/039...
mhandley4 months ago
There's a blast from the past - I had that book too and absolutely loved it. I'm glad I grew up in an era when a child had some hope of thinking they could understand all the technology around them (even though with hindsight, I know that knowledge was extremely superficial).
nbernard4 months ago
How Things Work was published in the US by Simon & Schuster as The Way Things Work: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Technology, which is on the IA:
Molitor59014 months ago
Better photos on his website: http://www.johnperaltafineart.com/
motohagiography4 months ago
these are amazing and beautiful. the singer sewing machine is particularly useful as I use a standing one as a modular synth workstation, but there is a full sewing machine inside it I've never used.
midenginedcoupe4 months ago
Mercedes World have a Formula 1 car exploded like this. It's fab.
lrivers4 months ago
What a great use case for a 3D representation
Loughla4 months ago
I'm kind of disappointed that it's only broken into major components.
They're still super cool, but to see every little spring and cog and switch represented by their own monofilament would be pretty neat.
rwmj4 months ago
Along those lines, this is a neat TV series with James May (of Top Gear fame):
rmholt4 months ago
Has he ever worked on pagers by a chance