Supersize Cross Sections: Inside Engines - Hardcover

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Get ready for a journey like no other as you explore 15 of the most awesome supersize vehicle cross sections!

Blast into space on the Saturn V Rocket Launcher and learn all about how this amazing machine made it to the moon. Delve to the bottom of the ocean on a nuclear-powered submarine and explore the watertight compartments. Relax in style as you rumble across Europe in the luxurious Orient Express. 

With bite-size captions and cutaway diagrams, each spread features a different and exciting machine, showing and telling its inside story. Discover what life on board these amazing vessels is like:

• Adventure Galley, a giant sailing ship captained by the famous pirate William Kidd
• The Orient Express, the luxury train that traveled all the way across Europe to the Orient
• RMS Titanic, the great passenger line that famously sank on its maiden voyage
• LZ 129 Hindenburg Zeppelin, the airship that was destroyed in a disastrous fire
• M4A4 Sherman tank, the American armored fighting vehicle used in WWII
• Saturn V rocket launcher, which transported satellites, probes and astronauts into space
• R.V. Calypso, the world-famous research vessel
• International Space Station, the giant space laboratory
• Fishing trawler, an enormous industrial fishing vessel
• Nuclear-powered attack submarine, a special military vessel
• Fire engine, with all the necessary equipment to get a fire under control
• Houseboat, a floating home
• Airbus A380, the longest, widest and heaviest airplane ever made
• Circus convoy, transporting everything from equipment to artists, from elephants to popcorn
• Tunnel boring machine, used to excavate tunnels

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