Do you know what an endoscope is? How does radar detect aircraft? How is nuclear energy produced? "The Oxford Children's A-Z of Technology" contains over 300 technology words listed alphabetically. It includes feature spreads on key topics: communications, making and manufacturing, materials, space technology, and transport. It covers full-colour photographs and illustrations on every page.

 

This book is part of a book series called Oxford Children's a To Z .

There are 64 pages in this book. This is an encyclopedia. An encyclopedia is a book or numbered set of books containing authoritative summary information about a variety of topics in the form of short essays, usually arranged alphabetically by headword or classified in some manner. An entry may be signed or unsigned, with or without illustration or a list of references for further reading. Headwords and text are usually revised periodically for publication in a new edition. In a multivolume encyclopedia, any indexes are usually located at the end of the last volume. Encyclopedias may be general (example: Encyclopedia Americana) or specialized, usually by subject (Encyclopedia of Bad Taste) or discipline (Encyclopedia of Social Work). This book was published 2004 by Oxford University Press .

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