[colanderman]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Way_Things_Work

Probably the single most influential on my technical education. Each page made me feel like I was inside the machines.

[hexagonc]

I had this book, too. It was given to me as a Christmas present along with the Star Trek Next Generation Technical Manual[1].

[1] - https://www.amazon.com/Star-Trek-Next-Generation-Technical/d...

[qubex]

Again, yup! To this day I can remember that warp coil plasma injectors work their way up to a maximum frequency of 50Hz at about Warp 8 and then merely keep increasing warp plasma flow. ;)

[qubex]

Yup! My father gave me a copy in 1992 and as late as 1997 I used the mammoth-infested diagram of a half-adder (the only depiction I had access to in my teenage pre-internet-connection days) to build a 4-bit full adder out of discrete logic.