Kid's Book of Giant Machines: That Crush, Cut, Dig, Drill, Excavate, Grade, Haul, Pave, Pump, Push, Roll, Stack Thresh, and Transport Big Things - Hardcover

Bruun, Erik A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1579120717 ISBN 13: 9781579120719

Verlag: Black Dog & Leventhal Pub, 1999

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Book by Bruun Erik

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Describes huge machines that build, demolish, cut, drill, and move massive things.

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Roll into the fascinating world of giant machines with this wonderfully illustrated book, packed with information and guaranteed to provide hours of exciting and enlightening fun!

Draglines use giant steel buckets the size of three-car garages. One scoop of a giant bucket can dig, move and dump more than 200 tons of dirt (enough to build 12,000 sand castles) to a new spot 100 yards away in less than 90 seconds.

The biggest bulldozer weighs 150 tons--that's heavier than 5,000 seven-year-old children--and has a blade 25 feet wide and 16 feet tall.

Giant mining trucks use six huge tires--each higher than a basketball hoop--that cost up to $70,000 each.

The transports NASA uses to move the space shuttle into launch position weigh six million pounds, have traveled more than 1,000 miles, and can carry as much as thirteen million pounds at a time.

The largest tractors weigh up to 40,000 pounds, and need extra wheels to spread out their immense weight.

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• Verlag: Black Dog & Leventhal Pub
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1579120717
• ISBN 13: 9781579120719
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 63
• Zeichner: Wiens Carl