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How Things Work: The Inner Live of Everyday Machines is my first book in a long time that isn’t about chemistry. As much as I like chemistry, my love of machines goes back just as far, to when I was growing up with mechanical things (and chemistry sets). As with all my books, this one is full of pictures (by Nick Mann) and stories about some of my favorite devices: Clocks, Locks, Scales, and everything to do with making cloth (the chapter in which I make a pot holder starting from cotton seeds).