Begining in 1983, Dick Crane told readers How Things Work in his monthly column in The Physics Teacher , a journal published by the American Association of Physics Teachers. In this collection of 70 of his column articles, Crane deals with topics from toys to spider webs, gasoline pumps to traffic lights. In doing so, he simplifies for us the complex physics principles of devices and phenomena found in everyday life. Many photographs and sketches are found throughout the book.