How machines work : zoo break! / David Macaulay.

Macaulay, David, author.
London : Dorling Kindersley Limited, 2015.
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Notes:

  • 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.
  • 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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Requested by Kurpiers, R.

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