machinery

Introduces the workings of various kinds of simple machinery with moving parts, such as pulleys, levers, gears, cams, and conveyor belts and provides instructions for building these machines out of cardboard and other easily obtainable materials.

Depicts many different kinds of things that go, including bicycles, trains, boats, and planes.

A kindergarten-level introduction to cranes, covering their size, movement, role in the process of construction, and such defining features as their arms and cables.

Simple text and photographs describe snowplows, their parts, and their jobs.

Informative text and illustrations describe how the tractor and other farm machines work and what they do.

Introduces the reader to the machinery that is used in making roads, from the backhoe loader to the pavers and chippers.

Text and pictures present building machines, describing their parts and functions, such as excavating, making concrete, and laying roads.

Introduces fifty mechanical devices developed since the 18th-century that have influenced human culture and quality of life, in the categories of industry, agriculture, media, transport, science, computing, energy and home.

Describes, in text and illustrations, the evolution of different types of machines, how they work, and their many uses.

A guide to the study of America's industrial past through examination of early engines, furnaces, locomotives, windmills, foundries, canals, bridges, and other industrial antiquities.