Cars : engines that move you / Dan Zettwoch.
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- volume
- 9781626728226
- 1626728224
- 9781626728219
- 1626728216
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Dr. James Carlson Library | Children's Graphic Novel | 629.222 Z61 | Available | 33111009354479 | ||||
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Main Library | Children's Graphic Novel | 629.222 Z61 | Available | 33111009155637 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
In Dan Zettwoch's Science Comics: Cars , you'll learn where cars came from and how they work. When you pop the hood, what are you looking at? How does gasoline--or electric batteries, or even steam--make a car move? Rev up your motor and take look at the combustible history of the automobile and its explosive effects on our modern lives.
Every volume of Science Comics offers a complete introduction to a particular topic--dinosaurs, the solar system, robots, and more. Whether you're a fourth grader doing a natural science unit at school or a thirty year old with a secret passion for airplanes, these books are for you!
A young reader's introduction to where cars came from and how they work. Presented in comic book format.
"In Dan Zettwoch's Science Comics: Cars, you'll learn where cars came from and how they work. When you pop the hood, what are you looking at? How does gasoline - or electric batteries, or even steam - make a car move? Rev up your motor and take look at the combustible history of the automobile and its explosive effects on our modern lives."--Provided by publisher.
Includes bibliographical references (page 121).
Intake : prehistory of cars -- Compression : putting it all together -- Power : explosive growth -- Exhaust : cars and our environment -- Glossary.