View source for David Macaulay The Way Things Work 2.0 (PC and Mac, CD-ROM) DK Multimedia - 1997 USA, Canada Release


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== Description from the packaging. ==

With new live-action video, plus a free trial subscription to the mammoth.net Internet site!
* Live-action video of David Macaulay.
* 1,000 Illustrations.
* 300 Animations.
* 27 New video sequences.
* 22 Mammoth movies.
* 70,000 Words of text.
* 1,500 Screens and pop-ups.
* Link to mammoth.net on the Internet.
* Mammoth Storeroom: Great sounds and pictures for your computer.

David Macaulay The Way Things Work 2.0.<br>
With mammoth.net Web connection.

A must-have multimedia experience, The Way Things Work 2.0 brings this acclaimed CD-ROM online!<br>
The Way Things Work 2.0 lets users ages 8 and up discover the workings of more than 150 machines, learn about the scientific principles behind machinery, and meet great inventors from 7000 BC to the present- with renowned illustrator David Macaulay (and his mascot, the Great Woolly Mammoth) as their guide.  More than just a CD-ROM, The Way Things Work 2.0 gives you a free trial subscription via your Web browser to mammoth.net, the exciting Internet site for young inventors of all ages.

Live-action video.<br>
Watch, listen, and learn as David Macauley explains the "how and why" of his favorite machines through live-action video.

3D Warehouse.<br>
New features include a 3D Warehouse of Inventions interface.

Full-color 160-page book included!

The Way Things Work blasts off into cyberspace!<br>
All the great stuff that made the original The Way Things Work CD-ROM so successful (more than 250,000 copies sold to date) is here- in-depth examinations of hundreds of machines, clear explanations of scientific principles, biographies of great inventors, a timeline of inventions, and your ever-entertaining guide, the Great Woolly Mammoth- along with many exciting new features.  There's a brand-new 3D Warehouse interface and a Storeroom packed with cool sounds and pictures.  Renowned author/illustrator David Macauley now appears in person to take you on a tour of his Warehouse of Inventions.  Best of all, you're never more than a few mouse clicks away from mammoth.net, the Internet site for young inventors!

Navigation buttons speed you to the machines, scientific principles, timeline or inventions, and inventors' biographies, and put mammoth.net at your fingertips.

Depth of information.<br>
Learn more than just how machines work- explore the scientific principles used by machines, and move through time with history's great inventors.

Internet connection!<br>
mammoth.net is a constantly changing, always challenging online hangout for inventors of all ages.

Check out Macaulay's Corner on the World Wide Web, where you can enter contests and find out what's going on in David Macaulay's world.

Mammoth Storeroom.<br>
Raid the Storeroom for sounds and pictures to soup up your computer system, or to import into your own creations- and there are always new goodies on mammoth.net to download.

DK provides the ultimate interactive experience.<br>
Each DK Multimedia product is a fully integrated learning adventure.  At DK, experts know that people gain knowledge at their own pace and in their own way, so in many CD-ROMs they provide other media to complement the disc- such as books, videos, puzzles, and even stickers- making DK's groundbreaking range of CD-ROMs the definitive interactive experience.

Included is a copy of Inventions- a full-color, 160-page DK Pockets book (a $6.95 value).  Parent's Choice 1995 Reference Award.

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