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    What Makes it GoJoe Kaufman

    What Makes it Go

    Joe Kaufman · 1972

    Science FictionFiction & Literature
    Open LibraryAmazon
    Stats for nerds
    1recommend
    2mentions
    2people
    2017–2024years
    50% recommend50% neutral

    Mentions per year

    20172018201920202021202220232024

    What Hacker News says

    1. psycApr 2017
      My parents got me my most influential book when I was 4. "What Makes It Go? What Makes It Work? What Makes It Fly? What Makes It Float?" by Joe Kaufman. It taught me that everything has causal inner mechanisms. From then on, I had xray vision and could imagine the inner mechanisms of every object at work.
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    2. jgrahamcSep 2024
      As a child I had the book "What makes it go?" which was full of illustrations of how machines work: https://www.amazon.com/What-Makes-Go-Joe-Kaufman/dp/06003926...
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