How Do They Do That?电子书

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? How do they sort mail so that a letter you drop into a box in New York arrives at an apartment in Los Angeles a few days later?

? How do homing pigeons find their way home?

? How do they determine a baby’s sex before birth?

? How do magicians saw a woman in half?

? How do they measure the speed at which a hurricane is traveling?

? How do they predict the path of a hurricane?

? How do they get a whole pear into a bottle of pear brandy?

? How does a steel ship float?

? How does on artificial pacemaker help a weak or damaged heart?

? How do they write the Encyclopaedia Britannica?

? How do they decide who is pictured on United States paper currency?

? How do they decide what goes on American coins?

? How do they get the lead into a pencil?

? How do they remove far from cigarettes?

? How do they measure the speed of a fastball?

? How do they wash the windows of the World Trade Center?

? How does a high-speed elevator take you 60 floors in 30 seconds?

? How does an archaeologist or anthropologist know where to dig?

? How do they predict future crop yields by satellite?

? How do they pick Nobel Prize winners?

? How do they decide whether a fine pointing is a forgery?

? How do they turn coffee into instant coffee?

? How do bees know how to build honeycombs?

? How does a honeybee find food?

? How do mountain climbers scale sheer rock walls?

? How do car tires grip a wet rood?

? How do they sort eggs into jumbo, large, and medium sizes?

? How does a submarine dive and resurface?

? How does a Xerox machine make copies instantly?

? How do they effect artificial insemination?

? How do they select donors at a sperm bank?

? How do they know what the speed of light is?

? How do they know how hot the sun is?

? How do they generate electricity?

? How does a Contac time-release capsule know when to release?

? How do they tell whose shirt is whose at a laundry?

? How do they build a subway under a city?

? How does the IRS decide which taxpayers to audit?

? How do they teach dogs to sniff out drugs at borders, bombs at airports?

? How does truth serum work?

? How do they get the stripes onto Stripe toothpaste?

? How do they predict solar eclipses?

? How do they time stoplights to keep traffic moving?

? How do they turn on street lights automatically?

? How do they count populations of animals?

? How do they determine whether a species is endongered or extinct?

? How do they steer balloons?

? How does a metal detector at the airport know whether you have metal on your person?

? How do they “lift” faces?

? How do they grow gropes without seeds?

? How do they perfectly reproduce large statues in miniature?

? How does The New York Times determine its best-seller list?

? How do they know what time it is?

? How do they trace bullets to specific guns?

? How do they execute a trade on the New York Stock Exchange?

? How does a hovercraft speed across the water?

? How do neon signs glow?

? How does on X ray photograph your bones but not the surrounding flesh?

? How do they come up with artificial flavors that taste just like the real thing?

? How does a vending machine know that the coin you inserted is the correct value and not a slug?

? How do they roll up a roll of Scotch tope?

? How do they measure the size of the universe?

? How do they know the universe is expanding?

? How do they write college entrance exams?

? How do slot machine operators keep the odds in their favor?

? How do they get the foam into a can of shaving cream?

? How do the musicians in on orchestra know what the conductor wants them to do?

? How do they rote movies?

? How does a Polaroid picture develop in broad daylight?

? How do they get corn off the cob and into the can?

? How do they make mirrors?

? How do camels go without water?

? How do they measure the elevation of a city or mountain?

? How does a microwave oven cook food from the inside out?

? How does a thermostat know your house has cooled off?

? How do glosses correct nearsightedness or farsightedness?

? How do they determine from the rubble the cause of a building’s collapse?

? How do they get natural gas to your house?

? How do they splice genes?

? How do they transmit pictures by telephone?

? How do they actually transfer money from your checking account to someone else’s?

? How do they moke dry ice?

? How does radiation therapy help cure cancer?

? How do they suspend a suspension bridge?

? How do they get catgut for tennis rackets?

? How do they match fingerprints?

? How does Frank Perdue kill chickens?

? How does Ivory soap float?

? How do they transplant hair?

? How do they know whether your phone is bugged?

? How do astronomers know where one galaxy ends and another begins?

? How do they produce hashish?

? How do they create spectacular fireworks?

? How does Planters shell all those peanuts without breaking them?

? How do they give you fresh air in a 747, flying at an altitude of 40,000 feet?

? How does on airplane land in fog?

? How do they mop up oil spills?

? How do they measure the ratings that reveal on Tuesday morning what Americans watched on TV Sunday evening?

? How do they make rain?

? How do they take photographs of the insides of the human body?

? How does a jewel thief know whether a string of pearls is worth stealing?

? How do they make pictures big enough to put on billboards?

? How do they restore a valuable painting?

? How do they keep the ice in a skating rink from melting?

? How do they put the lines under an ice hockey rink?

? How do they make toll buildings perfectly vertical?

? How do they tune a piano?

? How do they charm snakes?

? How do they know when man was born?

? How do cable cars clang up and down steep San Francisco hills?

? How do fireflies flash?

? How do they determine the cause and time of death from an autopsy?

? How do they make gasohol?

? How do they know how many stars are in the universe?

? How do they know how far away the stars are?

? How does a polygraph detect lies?

? How do sword swallowers swallow swords?

? How do they tell how smart you are from an IQ test?

? How does a gun silencer silence the shot?

? How do they make fake cherries?

? How does a dentist perform a root canal?

? How do they know how cold “absolute zero” is?

? How do astronauts relieve themselves in space?

? How do they measure continental drift?

? How does a ship move uphill through a canal?

? How do Polaroid sunglasses block out the glare but not the rest of the world?

? How do they measure the gross national product?

? How does a pipe organ generate sound?

? How do they pick the Pope?

? How can they tell what a dinosaur looked like from a single bone?

? How does a thermos keep coffee hot, or lemonade cold, for hours on end?

? How do they embalm a corpse?

? How do “electric eye” elevator doors pop open for you if you walk through them as they start to close?

? How does a dollar-bill changer know whether your dollar is real?

? How do they notate choreography?

? How do they put 3-D movies on television?

? How do they dig tunnels underwater?

? How do they get air into a 2-mile-long tunnel?

? How do they know whether an object dates from 1000 B.C. or 3000 B.C.?

? How does a diamond cutter cut a diamond?

? How do they select contestants for the Miss America Pageant?

? How do they decide whether a steak is Prime or Choice?

? How does detergent cut grease?

? How do they collect caviar?

? How does a heat-seeking missile find its target?

? How do art conservationists remove a fresco from a wall?

? How do they stop on oil-well blowout?

? How do they point the straight lines on streets?

? How do instruments in the cockpit tell a pilot how fast he is flying?

? How do salmon, after years of migration over vast distances, return to the rivers in which they were spawned?

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