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Supersize Cross Sections: Inside Engines

Name: Supersize Cross Sections: Inside Engines
ISBN: 9781786038012

Pascale Hedelin

Lou Rhin

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Get ready for a journey like no other as you explore 15 of the most awesome supersize vehicle cross sections!

Blast into space on the Saturn V Rocket Launcher and learn all about how this amazing machine made it to the moon. Delve to the bottom of the ocean on a nuclear-powered submarine and explore the watertight compartments. Relax in style as you rumble across Europe in the luxurious Orient Express.

With bite-size captions and cutaway diagrams , each spread features a different and exciting machine, showing and telling its inside story. Discover what life on board these amazing vessels is like:

Adventure Galley , a giant sailing ship captained by the famous pirate William Kidd
The Orient Express , the luxury train that traveled all the way across Europe to the Orient
RMS Titanic , the great passenger line that famously sank on its maiden voyage
LZ 129 Hindenburg Zeppelin , the airship that was destroyed in a disastrous fire
M4A4 Sherman tank , the American armored fighting vehicle used in WWII
Saturn V rocket launcher , which transported satellites, probes, and astronauts into space
R.V. Calypso , the world-famous research vessel
International Space Station , the giant space laboratory
Fishing trawler, an enormous industrial fishing vessel
Nuclear-powered attack submarine , a special military vessel
Fire engine , with all the necessary equipment to get a fire under control
Houseboat , a floating home
Airbus A380 , the longest, widest, and heaviest airplane ever made
Circus convoy , transporting everything from equipment to artists, from elephants to popcorn
Tunnel boring machine , used to excavate tunnels