TY - BOOK AU - Snedden,Robert TI - Mechanical engineering and simple machines T2 - Engineering in action SN - 0778774988 (reinforced library binding : alk. paper) PY - 2013///] CY - St. Catharines, Ontario PB - Crabtree Publishing Company KW - Mechanical engineering KW - Juvenile literature N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Machine world -- Energy, force, and motion -- What is a machine? -- Looking at levers -- Inventing the wheel (and other turning things) -- Compound machines -- What do we want to make? -- Searching for solutions -- Building a prototype -- Into production -- Design challenge : rocket racer -- On the engineering frontier -- So you want to be a mechanical engineer?; Guided reading: V ER -