Stickmen's Guide to Gigantic Machines

Stickmen's Guide to Gigantic Machines — page 1 — Thanks to the creative team Senior Editor Alice Peebles Designer Lauren Woods and collaborate agency Original edition copyright 2015 by Hungry Tomato Ltd Copyright 2016 by Lerner Publishing Group Inc Hungry Tomato is a trademark of Lerner Publishing Group Inc All rights reserved International copyright secured No part of this book may be reproduced stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic mechanical photocopying recording or otherwise without the prior written permission of Lerner Publishing Group Inc except for the inclusion of brief quotations in an acknowledged review Hungry Tomato A division of Lerner Publishing Group Inc 241 First Avenue North Minneapolis MN 55401 USA For reading levels and more information look up this title at www lernerbooks com Main body text set in Century Gothic Typeface provided by Monotype Typography Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names Farndon John author De Quay John Paul illustrator Title Stickmen's Guide to gigantic machines by John Farndon illustrated by John Paul De Quay Other titles Guide to gigantic machines Description Minneapolis Hungry Tomato 2016 Series Stickmen's guides to how everything works Audience Ages 8-12 Audience Grades 4 to 6 Includes index Identiﬁ ers LCCN 2015032762 ISBN 9781467793612 lb alk paper ISBN 9781467795951 pb alk paper ISBN 9781467795968 eb pdf alk paper Subjects LCSH Machinery Juvenile literature Technology Juvenile literature Classiﬁ cation LCC TJ147 O886 2016 DDC 621 dc23 LC record available at http lccn loc gov 2015032762 Manufactured in the United States of America 1 VP 12 31 15

Stickmen's Guide to Gigantic Machines — page 2 — STICKMEN’S GUIDE TO GIGANTIC MACHINES by John Farndon Illustrated by John Paul de Quay

Stickmen's Guide to Gigantic Machines — page 3 — Germany’s bucket wheel excavator is as long as two football ﬁ elds

Stickmen's Guide to Gigantic Machines — page 4 — Contents Gigantic Machines History of Gigantic Machines Dump Trucks Bulky monsters with wheels as tall as elephants Construction Cranes Swinging weighty loads way up in the sky Bucket Wheel Excavators Mighty machines that gobble up earth Tunneling Machines Massive borers for burrowing underground Combine Harvesters Cutting a swath through rolling wheat ﬁ elds Semisubmersible Rigs Drilling for oil in the seabed Crawler Vehicles Self-propelled giants for moving spacecraft Large Hadron Collider Hurling tiny particles up to the speed of light Roller Coasters The thrills without spills of the scariest rides Abrams Tank Armor-plated and very dangerous Strange Inventions Glossary Index 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 28 30 31 32

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