howstuffworks.com is a super cool website that goes in depth on many of the things we take for granted in our lives. It has lots of diagrams and is easy to read.
The book equivalent is the classic The New Way Things Work. Every designer should own this. It is beautifully illustrated and takes you through inventions as simple as the inclined plane and as complex as the internet. It also relies heavily on woolly mammoths.
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