The Secret House: The Extraordinary Science of an Ordinary Day

by David Bodanis

This is a description of 24 hours in the life of a house, revealing all the little-known stirrings continually going on in our homes - many of which have an extraordinary effect on our daily lives. There are questions such as why doesn't teflon stick? How does a match light when you strike it? Why is ninety-two per cent of a TV screen actually blank when you watch a programme? The illustrations range from high powered scanning electron micrographs, to thermosgrams, computer enhanced X-rays, polarized light microscopy, and even airflow visualization techniques currently being developed for the aerospace industry.

• ISBN10: 0425188426
• ISBN13: 9780425188422
• Publish Date: 4 March 2003 (first published 26 June 1986)
• Publish Status: Out of Stock
• Publish Country: US
• Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
• Imprint: Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 260
• Language: English

Reviews

[remo]

Gran libro que aprovechando un tema tan aburrido como una casa (la estructura de una casa y sus habitantes) nos da mil lecciones de ciencia, empezando por la formación y composición de las pelusas, siguiendo por la resistencia de materiales y su comportamiento térmico... un montón de cosas muy interesantes y bien contadas. Libro muy recomendable.