machinery

The Islanders uncover the principles involved the the process of buoyancy as they use a raft to make a rescue.

The inhabitants of Mammoth Island explore how machines like refrigerators and air conditioners function.

Emma, Ben, and their mom learn about the different functions of construction trucks like the bulldozer, backhoe, dump truck, loader, grader, and cement mixer when they visit the lot where a new school is being built.

Text and photographs introduce backhoes, how they work, and what they do such as lifting dirt and rocks. Written in English and Spanish.

Text and photographs introduce young readers to such extreme vehicles as giant dump trucks, fire trucks, and submarines.

Brief text and life-sized photographs illustrate the concept of size with simple machines, such as levers, inclined planes, wheels and axles, screws, pulleys, and wedges.

Introduces, through photographs alone, heavy construction machines: earth movers, mixers, diggers, and others.

This book tells about the machines.

A collection of poems for children about tractors, washing machines, bicycles, robots, crunchers, rockets, UFOs, and central heating systems.

Pictures and text describe a small selection of the thousands of machines invented over the past 300 years.