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Book

How machines work : zoo break!

Call Number

  • J 621.8 MACA (OSH)

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Languages

Text in English.

Publication Information

London : Dorling Kindersley Limited, 2015.

Physical Description

30 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm

Summary

Sloth and Sengi are friends. they have grown up together in the zoo, and know every bit of their enclosure. And, frankly, they are a little bored with it. So they begin to plan an escape, with the help of some simple machines ... This book introduces such simple machines as levers, gears, planes, and pulleys.

Contents

  • Inclined to escape
  • Living on the wedge
  • Getting leverage
  • Lots of levers
  • A wheely bad idea
  • Getting in gear
  • Push and pulley
  • Pulley power
  • A screwy plan
  • Drilling in
  • Getting complex
  • Escape?

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