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Incredible cross-sections of everything
32 pages
colour illustrations.
First published in Great Britain in 1997. With fold-out pages. Contents: Our incredible world -- Milk -- Plywood -- Wooden house -- Doughnut -- CD -- Steam locomotive -- Matches -- Diamond ring -- Bridge -- Saturn V -- Car -- Coin -- Armour -- Plastic bottle -- Drinking water -- Boeing -- Soap -- Aluminium foil -- Nuclear power -- Paper -- Pipe organ -- Racing car -- Gunpowder -- Wig -- Cathedral -- Brick -- Sports shoe -- Chocolate bar -- Nail -- Tower block -- False teeth -- Daily newspaper -- Photocopy -- Mummy -- Underground railway tunnel -- Dinosaur skeleton -- Gas.
Summary: Step inside the extraordinary world of Stephen Biesty and find out how a wide variety of curious things are made, from tower blocks and underground tunnels to the milk, chocolate, and doughnuts on your table, via matches, diamond rings, and sports shoes - not to mention racing cars, planes, and rockets. Follow the production line of a factory making nails or newspapers, or exploring the insides of a Boeing 777 plane and the Saturn V rocket. Taking you through every stage of each process is Chester the Tester, a character who helps explain how things are made, along with his sidekick Hector the Inspector.