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Engineering: How the Six Simple Machines Support the World

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A fully illustrated book about simple machines for the next generation of engineers!

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In Engineering: How the Six Simple Machines Support the World, young engineers learn how mechanical, structural, civil, and other types of engineering are based on the six simple machines that humans have been using for thousands of years. The screw, pulley, wedge, wheel and axle, inclined pla...