machinery

A photo essay about the history, development, and impact of automobiles from horseless carriages and Model T Fords to modern high-performance racing cars; featuring detailed cutaway photos showing how the moving parts of a car work.

Introduces various kinds of agricultural machinery, describes some of their major parts, and explains how these machines are used on the farm.

This book describes the special features and jobs of large and small excavators.

Presents a children's book for early readers about giant diggers, what they look like and what they do.

Text and illustrations introduce the big machines such as bulldozers, cranes, cement mixers, and combine harvesters which make man's life easier.

Describes a variety of record-breaking machines and inventions, including the fastest train, the first mechanical clock, and the largest airships ever built.

Simple text and photographs present the "monster" machines used in constructing buildings, roads, factories, and bridges, and explains the jobs of each.

Examines how machines are used for different types of farm work, including preparing soil, helping crops to grow, harvesting crops, and in the farming of livestock.

Briefly describes simple machines, machine parts, and the powers that move them.

Photographs and text describe such work-saving machines as a crane, jack hammer, bulldozer, and back hoe.