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EAGLE BOOK OF HOW IT WORKS

Published by Longacre Press. 1st. 1962

Slightly better than good condition in a good dustwrapper. Written with great care in straight forward, non-technical language and illustrated with many fascinating photographs and explanatory drawings. Large format. Blue boards, dark blue title to spine. 192 pages.

Minimal bumping to spine, heavy bumping to corners. Wear to bottom edge of front cover, light browning to some cover edges. Heavy foxing to title page, frontis and half-title page. Light foxing to page edges. Book has musty smell. Price-cut dustwrapper is edge worn, torn and creased. Large tear to front panel, stain to bottom part of spine and panels alongside. Some browning. Clear tape stuck on verso to edges and tears. Foxed.

Stock no. 1504118

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Contents

  • MOTIVE POWER:
  • The Internal Combustion Engine; Diesel Engines; Electric Motors; Making Electricity; The Fuel Cell; Oil Drilling; Machine Efficiency
  • TRANSPORT BY LAND AND WATER:
  • Unusual Vehicles; The Electronic Highway; Hovercraft and Hovercars; Amphibians; Remote Control; Diesel Locomotives; Travel in 'Inner Space'
  • ATOMIC ENERGY:
  • The Chain Reaction and the Atomic Bomb; 'Seeing' Atoms; The Atomic Power Station; The Atomic Ship; Project Gnome; Isotopes and Medicine
  • FLIGHT:
  • Supersonic Flight; Vertical Flight; Landing Systems; Freight by Air; Jets and Rockets
  • SATELLITES
  • ROCKETS IN SPACE:
  • The Electronic Rocket; The Solar Sail; Missiles
  • MAN IN SPACE:
  • The First American Flights; The Moon Journey; Telstar
  • ELECTRONICS:
  • The Radio Valve; Television; Television Films; Underwater Television; Sound and Sight on Tape; Lights and Electrons; How Sound Films Work; Colour Television; The Electron Microscope; The Electronic Brain; Robot Factories; X-rays; Brain Waves
  • WORLD OF SOUND
  • ELECTRONIC EXPLORATION:
  • Electrons and Radio Activity; The Spectroscope
  • INTO THE FUTURE

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