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Author Connolly, Sean, 1956- author.

Title The book of massively epic engineering disasters / Sean Connolly.

Publication Info. New York : Workman Publishing, 2017.

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 Avon Free Public Library - Children's Department  J 507.8 CONNOLLY    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Children's Department  J507.8 CON    Storage
 Burlington Public Library - Middle School Books  M624.171 Connolly    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Children's Department  J 624.171 CON    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Children's Nonfiction  J 507.8 CON    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Children's Department  J 507.8 CON    Check Shelf
 Southington Library - Children  J Science 507.8 CON    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Bishop's Corner Branch - Children's Nonfiction  J 507.8 CONNOLLY    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Children's Nonfiction  J 507.8 CONNOLLY    DUE 05-11-24
Description xiii, 241 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary A latest entry in the best-selling science series profiles the most infamous and dangerous disasters in the history of engineering, including Italy's Leaning Tower of Pisa and Boston's Great Molasses Flood of 1919, in a volume that provides engaging experiments that demonstrate key principles.
Contents The colossus of Rhodes -- Fidenae Stadium collapses -- The leaning tower of Pisa -- The tay bridge disaster -- The "unsinkable" Titanic -- The Boston molasses flood -- The Hinderburg crashes -- The Tacoma narrows bridge -- Sherman tanks get stuck -- Flight of the "Spruce goose" -- The plywood skyscraper -- Radial tires come unglued -- Whoops-the lake's gone -- The sinclair c5 stalls -- The Exxon Valdez oil spill -- The Paris airport collapse -- Chile's trapped miners -- The metrodome delates -- The infamous "Fryscraper".
Subject System failures (Engineering)
Disasters.
Structural failures.
Science -- Experiments -- Juvenile literature.
Engineering -- Experiments -- Juvenile literature.
Physics -- Experiments -- Juvenile literature.
Disasters -- Juvenile literature.
Science -- Experiments -- Juvenile literature.
Engineering -- Experiments.
Engineering.
Science -- Experiments.
Added Title Massively epic engineering disasters
ISBN 9780761183945 (hardcover)
0761183949 (hardcover)
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