Cool Engineering - Filled with fantastic facts for kids of all ages

Engineering is no less than the power to change the world! Inside this mega-jam-packed book find out aboutthe lives of people who have done just this, and get stuck into all sorts of experiments to get your own brain matter moving! As well as experiments, this book has fact-tastic engineering timelines, drawing tips, and information! It also includes biographies of key engineers like Leonardo da Vinci, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Hedy Lamarr and Elon Musk. Discover within the many branches of engineering a whole world of clever inventions - from the mechanical tools that allowed early civilisations to irrigate their land, and the steam engines that powered the industrial revolution, to modern-day computers, and biomedical inventions that revolutionising how we deal with disease. Find out about the world of engineering from the building of the pyramids to spacecrafts and on to the largest crisis of our times - how to solve global warming. Watch out for other books in the ''Cool'' series: Cool Nature, Cool Science Tricks, Cool Architecture, Cool Art and more!

Product details

• Authors: Jenny Jacoby, Jacoby Jenny, Jem Venn
• Assisted by: Jem Venn (Illustration)
• Publisher: Pavilion Books
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 9 to 13
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2021
• EAN: 9781843654728
• ISBN: 978-1-84365-472-8
• Dimensions: 200 mm x 154 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Non-fiction books / Non-fiction picture books > Natural science, technology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > General, dictionaries; JUVENILE NONFICTION / Mathematics / General, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Technology / How Things Work-Are Made, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Technology / General, Children’s gift books, Interest age: from c 9 years, Engineering: general, Children’s / Teenage general interest: History and the past, Children's / Teenage: general non-fiction, Stationery & miscellaneous items (Children's / Teenage), Educational: Engineering, Machines & how things work, Inventors, inventions & experiments