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An informative text is coupled with meticulously detailed, full-color, cross-sectional illustrations of bulldozers, planes, ships, cars, rockets, and more in order to provide answers to the many questions children have about the way things operate.
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Gr. 6 and up. Both technical and beautiful, the double-page full-color drawings in this huge and handsome encyclopedic volume will have engineering buffs poring over the detailed cross sections of the machinery. There are separate chapters on cars, trains, building vehicles, tanks, rescue vehicles, record breakers, ships, planes, jets, and space vehicles and instruments. Within each chapter, each double-page spread is devoted to a carefully labeled cross section of just one type of machine. For cars the range is historical, from the Ford Model T to the Cadillac and the Formula I racing car. The chapter on building vehicles includes the bulldozer, cement mixer, excavator, scraper, and more. Each section ends with a two-page glossary of technical terms. The fully labeled technical drawings are alluring, meticulous in their detail, powerful in their energy. Around the pictures are small paragraphs of fact and anecdote. This is for high school technocrats and also for younger kids who want to find out what makes machines work. Hazel Rochman
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vessels and vehicles Offering a look not just under the hood, but everywhere inside cars?and trains, tanks, rescue vehicles and more?The Ultimate Book of Cross-Sections offers abundant visual detail and many small blocks of explanatory text: it's as if 10 of the Look Inside Cross-sections books have been placed end to end. Kids will be able to impress their friends with terms like "Matra 55 rocket pods," "refueling probe" and "aileron," to cite some of the parts of the Harrier plane. With almost the heft of a small engine, this book offers enough detail to mesmerize the mechanically inclined.
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- PublisherDk Pub
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0789411954
- ISBN 13 9780789411952
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages304
- EditorMiles John C., Jones Nancy, Ritchie Nigel
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