An amazing flap book packed with inventions, machines, gadgets and devices, and facts and information about how they work. Over 90 flaps reveal the insides of car engines, toilets, escalators, submarines and microwaves and many, many other machines.
All the energy in Baby comes from the sun. Explore the transfer of energy as it flows from sun to apple to Baby. Parents and caregivers may learn a thing or two, as well!
Biomimicry / copying nature to solve a human problem
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Nature does it best … and did it first! Explore the ways we have looked to nature for brilliant new designs and innovations to solve our own conundrums. Each example in nature is paired with a fun, rhyming description, an example of how it has been used by us, and a question to the reader―”what other problems can be solved?”
‘The Wright brothers invented the airplane in 1903. When I was growing up, their success seemed like the end of the story. But what I’ve learned from a lifetime of living and working around planes is that the Wright Flyer was just a beginning. Being the first to make something doesn’t always mean your solution is the best one. Engineers spend as much time improving existing designs as creating new ones.’
The Wright brothers’ airplane was an amazing achievement. But imagine if pilots today still Lay on their stomachs and slid their hips back and forth to help control the plane like the Wrights did!
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