The Boston Globe, February 7th, 1999
With The New Way Things Work, illustrator-author David Macaulay has 17 books to his credit. Many show how things are built. Macaulay, 52, lives and works in Bristol, Rhode Island. How can you know so much about so many disciplines and devices? Well, I know things briefly, long enough to make the drawings and to explain them, and then I have that erase feature on my brain as I do on the computer, and I clean it off and go on to the next machine or subject. I couldn't do it any other way. Does anything stump you? Most difficult is the transmission of things through space, like radio waves. I tak...
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