machinery

Presents step-by-step instructions for making models of planes, cars, and other machines using wire, rubber bands, and other household items.

Explains how farmers use tractors, plows, planters, sprayers, cultivators, balers, combines, and other machines in the production of various crops.

Examines many machines such as race cars, truck gears, underground trains, cable cars, jet engines, and the space shuttle.

Labeled illustrations depict many kinds of machines, grouped according to categories such as flying machines, machines on wheels, and space machines.

Photographs and text provide information about diggers, explaining what they are, looking at different types of diggers, and discussing how they are used.

Text and pictures introduce machines that carry things, such as cargo planes, garbage trucks, and space vehicles.

Brief descriptions of twenty-three machines invented during the last 250 years, including the electric searchlight, the Sutherland steam fire engine, and the Daguerrotype camera.

Describes the purpose, parts and functions of various big rigs, all the way from cranes and diggers to helicopters and submarines. Includes a color poster.

Instructions for using readily available materials to make models of machines such as pulleys, windlasses, and water wheels, with suggested experiments to demonstrate their capabilities.

Introduces a number of big-wheeled trucks, such as bulldozers, power shovels, and dump trucks, and explains what they do.