Bibliograph

Thing explainer, complicated stuff in simple words, Randall Munroe

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Thing explainer, complicated stuff in simple words, Randall Munroe

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Thing explainer

Oclc number

915741565

Responsibility statement

Randall Munroe

Sub title

complicated stuff in simple words

Summary

The creator of the popular webcomic "xkcd" uses line drawings and just ten hundred common words to provide simple explanations for how things work, including microwaves, bridges, tectonic plates, the solar system, the periodic table, helicopters, and other essential concepts

Table Of Contents

Shared space house: International Space Station -- Tiny bags of water you're made of: animal cell -- Heavy metal power building: nuclear reactor -- Red world space car: Curiosity Rover -- Bags of stuff inside you: human torso -- Boxes that make clothes smell better: washing machine & dryer -- Earth's surface: physical map of the Earth -- Under a car's front cover: car engine -- Sky boat with turning wings: helicopter -- US's laws of the land: US Constitution -- US's Laws of the Land: USS Constitution -- Food-heating radio box: microwave -- Shape checker: padlock -- Lifting room: elevator -- Boat that goes under the sea: submarine -- Box that cleans food holders: dishwasher -- Big flat rocks we live on: tectonic plates -- Cloud maps: weather maps -- Tree: tree -- Machine for burning cities: nuclear bomb -- Water room: toilet & sink -- Computer building: data center -- US Space Team's Up Goer Five: Saturn V rocket -- Sky boat pusher: jet engine -- Stuff you touch to fly a sky boat: cockpit -- Big tiny thing hitter: Large Hardon Collider -- Power boxes: batteries -- Hole-making city boat: oil rig -- Stuff in the Earth we can burn: mines -- Tall roads: bridges -- Bending computer: laptop -- Worlds around the sun: solar system -- Picture taker: camera -- Writing sticks: pen & pencil -- Hand computer: smart phone -- Colors of light: electromagnetic spectrum -- Sky at night: night sky -- Pieces everything is made of: periodic table -- Our star: Sun -- How to count things: units of measurement -- Room for helping people: hospital bed -- Playing fields: athletic fields -- Earth's past: Geologic periods of Earth -- Tree of life: life's family tree -- Ten hundred words people use the most: ten hundred most common words in our language -- Helpers: acknowledgments -- Sky toucher: skyscraper

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