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Thing explainer: complicated stuff in simple words
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Linthicum Library - Adult Nonfiction
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Odenton Library - Adult Nonfiction
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Table of Contents
From the Book
Page before the book starts: Introduction
Shared space house: International Space Station
Tiny bags of water you're made of: Animal cell
Heavy metal power building: Nuclear reactor
Red world space car: Curiosity Rover
Bags of stuff inside you: Human torso
Boxes that make clothes smell better: Washing machine and dryer
Earth's surface: Physical map of the Earth
Under a car's front cover: Car engine
Sky boat with turning wings: Helicopter
The U.S.'s laws of the land: U.S. Constitution
The U.S.'s Laws of the Land: USS Constitution
Food-heating radio box: Microwave
Shape checker: Padlock
Lifting room: Elevator
Boat that goes under the sea: Submarine
Box that cleans food holders: Dishwasher
Big flat rocks we live on: Tectonic plates
Cloud maps: Weather maps
Tree: Tree
Machine for burning cities: Nuclear bomb
Water room: Toilet and sink
Computer building: Data center
U.S. Space Team's Up Goer Five: Saturn V rocket
Sky boat pusher: Jet engine
Stuff you touch to fly a sky boat: Cockpit
Big tiny thing hitter: Large Hardon Collider
Power boxes: Batteries
Hole-making city boat: Oil rig
Stuff in the Earth we can burn: Mines
Tall roads: Bridges
Bending computer: Laptop
Worlds around the sun: Solar system
Picture taker: Camera
Writing sticks: Pen and pencil
Hand computer: Smart phone
Colors of light: Electromagnetic spectrum
The sky at night: Night sky
The pieces everything is made of: Periodic table
Our star: Sun
How to count things: Units of measurement
Room for helping people: Hospital bed
Playing fields: Athletic fields
Earth's past: Geologic periods of Earth
Tree of life: Life's family tree
The ten hundred words people use the most: The ten hundred most common words in our language
Sky toucher: Skyscraper.