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Overview
All structures must stand up to the forces of gravity, weather, and, occasionally, disasters. In Structures, Discovery Channel helps you discover how people have overcome challenges in designing, planning, and constructing bridges, skyscrapers, monuments, and tunnels in order to make them bigger and better than ever before.An overview of how challenges to design and construction have been overcome throughout history to make it possible to build structures that can stand up to natural forces.
Synopsis
All structures must stand up to the forces of gravity, weather, and, occasionally, disasters. In Structures, Discovery Channel helps you discover how people have overcome challenges in designing, planning, and constructing bridges, skyscrapers, monuments, and tunnels in order to make them bigger and better than ever before.
Amy S. Hansen - Children's Literature
Take a virtual voyage and watch as crews repair the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel. Tour the world and learn about ancient structures left behind by great civilizations. In this installment of the "Discovery Channel School Science" series, a great deal is explained about structures and the forces trying to pull them down. Divided into two page segments, the book uses a Q&A segment to introduce some of the basics of engineering. The interview with a Greek column is rather cloying, but the rest of the book is fairly good. The book looks at sky scrapers, bridges and even music, in the Experience Music Project, a museum in Washington State. Each section has an activity. Illustrations are photos and drawings. The book includes a table of contents and a puzzle with a solution on the last page. 2003, Gareth Stevens Publishing
Editorials
Children's Literature
Take a virtual voyage and watch as crews repair the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel. Tour the world and learn about ancient structures left behind by great civilizations. In this installment of the "Discovery Channel School Science" series, a great deal is explained about structures and the forces trying to pull them down. Divided into two page segments, the book uses a Q&A segment to introduce some of the basics of engineering. The interview with a Greek column is rather cloying, but the rest of the book is fairly good. The book looks at sky scrapers, bridges and even music, in the Experience Music Project, a museum in Washington State. Each section has an activity. Illustrations are photos and drawings. The book includes a table of contents and a puzzle with a solution on the last page. 2003, Gareth Stevens Publishing—Amy S. Hansen