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BRIDGESBRIDGESRELATED TITLES & PRODUCTS

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

What's Inside:
  • Different Kinds of Bridges
  • How Beam Bridges Work
  • How Arch Bridges Work
  • How a Suspension Bridge Works
  • Cool Variations of Beam and Suspension Bridges
  • How the Brooklyn Bridge Was Built
  • Bridges in Art
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  • TIME LINES
  • LEXILE® READING LEVEL: 1030L
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"Picture yourself on one side of a raging, crocodile-infested river. You desperately want to get across. However, swimming with crocodiles is out of the question, and walking around the river could take days. What should you do? Aha! Build a bridge! From the earliest footbridges, built with a single felled tree trunk or flat stones, to structures of spun steel cables, bridges have played key. . . "
RELATED TITLES & PRODUCTS
SIMPLE MACHINESSIMPLE MACHINES
"Which is easier: lifting a piano ten feet up in the air or pushing it up a ramp until it is ten feet from the ground. Most people whould prefer to push the piano up the ramp. Ramps, also called inclined planes, are simple machines. Simple machines are devices that make work easier. Levers, wheels, screws, wedges, and pulleys are also simple machines. Other machines - such as computers, cranes, and cars - are compound, or complex machines. They combine more than one simple machine.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
CHILDREN'S BOOKS
  • Bridges: Amazing Structires to Design, Build & Test.  By Carol Johmann, et. al., Sagebrush, 1999.
  • Bridges.  By Etta Kaner & Pat Cupples, Kids Can Press, 1995.
  • Bridges: From My Side to Yours.  By Jan Adkins, Roaring Brook, 2002.
ADULT BOOKS
  • Bridges of the World : Their Design and Construction.  By Charles S. Whitney, Dover Publications, 2003.
  • 30 Bridges.  By Matthew Wells, Watson-Guptill Publications, 2002.
  • Bridges That Changed the World.  By Bernhard Graf, Prestel Publishing, 2002.
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