Machines at work

Photographs and text look at different types of trucks and how they are used for work and play.

Describes the parts, workings, and purposes of cherry pickers, explaining why they are important machines.

Reviews the history of personal watercraft, looks at different types of personal watercraft, including machines made for standing, sitting, and for one or more people, and discusses racing, safety, and operation.

Photographs and simple text present some of the different machines used on farms, including tractors, cultivators, balers, and combine harvesters.

Illustrations and simple text describe machines that are used in road and house building, forestry, and mining industries. Climb aboard a backhoe, watch as building is knocked over, and learn how a road is made. Take an up-close look at the wide variety of machines that are used on a building site.

Photographs and text look at different types of trucks and how they are used for work and play.

Presents information on the machines that are used in road and house construction, forestry, and mining, in simple text with photographs, and includes cement mixers, excavators, bulldozers, dumptrucks, tractors, and cranes.

Illustrations and simple text describe machines that are used in farming such as tractors, combines, balers, and pickers.

Describes the jobs that cranes do and the people who operated them.

Introduces assorted airplanes and other flying machines, including gliders, helicopters, and space shuttles.