thank you

  Wow, it's cold in here! (brrrr!)

  Just letting everyone know that I have found a great resource
  regarding technology and architecture.

  Children's books.  Today, priced 0.25 to 1.25 cents, I picked up roughly
  40 used childrens books at the used book store at the library.  These are
  amazing.  One on Light, by Isaac Asimov, others with award winning seals
  on the description of how a Nuclear Power Plant functions, some on the
  public works department and city hall, others on different categories of
  ships and transportation, one on earth (and geophysical equipment and
  how it works), one on petroleum, others on "how radio works" and "how
  television works" then ones on traffic, and "the airport builders,"
  others on electronics, color, the UN, automobiles, energy, flags, space
  satellites, the universe, the story of electricity, space-age army (us
  prop), even one on electric fish.  These are printed from the 40's to
  the 80's.  Also got one on electric fish.  I am going back for more.
  I've read about 5 of them today with great enjoyment, and they are quite
  excellent in presenting the complex in a readable, layperson's terms.
  The cashier asked me why I was buying 50 of them (i rode my bike, so i
  had to call for transport), "I am trying to prove something to my
  teachers," i said.  "I shouldn't have asked" she said.

  On the grown-up side I found a few books,
  --the information machines--
  --ABC's of Antennas-- explains how to recognize the different types
  --bending Cross-- about the development of railroad in the USA and
                    the socialist movement, which relates to electricity.

  These last books are for aesthetical comparison, as are all the others.
  My point being, if you found interest in any of the ideas expressed
 previously regarding sci/tech/infra and architecture,  then this may be
 the best resource available to work from, the used-childrens book.

  One more point; these books have some of the best graphical examples of
  any text I have seen, this includes defining the *larger system* or the
  system, order, and control of things.

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