wheels

Text, illustrations, and experiments demonstrate the capabilities of wheels on vehicles, in pulleys and gears, and as windmills and waterwheels.

Instructions for using readily available materials to make models of machines such as pulleys, windlasses, and water wheels, with suggested experiments to demonstrate their capabilities.

Text and photographs look at basic devices such as wheels, pulleys, levers, screws, and slopes, and suggest simple experiments and projects to demonstrate how they work.

Text and illustrations describe the many machines derived from the wheel.

Describes how different kinds of vehicles and their wheels have developed throughout history, from chariots to trucks to the Bullet Train.

Text and illustrations describe the simple machines of wheels and axles.

Photographs and simple text describe how wheels and axles work in simple machines.

A creative fifteen-year-old boy in ancient Sumeria invents the wheel, resulting in many adventures, both humorous and threatening.

Traces man's development and use of the wheel from the Elamite chariot of 2,500 B.C. to the transcontinental buses of today.

Introduces the principles of wheels and cranks as simple machines, using examples from everyday life.