“I grew up when you could stand in an elevator and sort of watch how parts of it worked,” the author and illustrator David Macaulay told me. “And maybe there was even somebody in the ...

Illustrator David Macaulay has been explaining science in pictures for decades now, starting in 1988 with the beloved The Way Things Work. The book brought to life hundreds of machines, beginning with ...

Illustration of how a smart phone works from "The Way Things Work Now" by David Macaulay. (courtesy Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) Everyday we use hundreds of simple and complicated machines in our ...

The Way Things Work was a short-lived television series based on the best-selling book of the same name by David Macaulay. The series was co-produced by Millimages and Schlessinger Media ...