The Secret of Everything Running (5 volumes) is a children's popular science masterpiece by David Macaulay, a world-class popular science book writer. This book is divided into five parts, which briefly explains the operation of hundreds of machines and equipment, including photos, helicopters, airplanes, mobile phones, CDs, hard disks, ATMs and so on. , and also explained in detail the scientific principles of each machine, such as how gears make work easier, why giant jets fly, how computers calculate and so on.

This series includes the mystery of floating mammoth-heat, the mystery of coma mammoth-force, the mystery of mammoth-wave in lens, the mystery of charged mammoth-electricity, and finally the mystery of mammoth-number, which are written for readers of all ages, especially those who think technology is far away, profound and threatening. I hope so.

David Macaulay's witty brushwork has brought us into a fascinating field of knowledge, and at the same time, it has made this journey of discovery full of fun. 1998 has been reprinted many times since it was published in Britain. It has won numerous awards and sold 3 million copies worldwide. It has been well received by readers and highly recommended by educational experts! David Macaulay made a wonderful connection to the above contents in this creative introduction to the principle of mechanical operation.

The imaginative and exquisite pictures in the book won him numerous awards and won an international reputation. He not only explained how machinery works-from the simplest crane to a network with long-distance transmission capability, but also explained how the concept of one thing is related to another. He embellished it with the humorous metaphor of mammoth, and drew various principles, so that even readers without any common sense of science and technology can understand complex modern science and technology.

Brief introduction of the author

David Macaulay: educator, writer, painter and architect. In his book creation career of more than 30 years, he has published nearly 20 works, won more than ten international awards, such as the Washington Intellectual Children's Book Award and the German Youth Book Best Book Award, and was nominated for the International Andersen Award twice. Many works have been made into TV programs.

For children's books, Macaulay's book is quite luxurious, and every illustration in the book is close to the designer's drawings. Macaulay, who is over 60 years old, is still like a child playing with toys, galloping in the creative space.