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Machine Building Ideas Videos and Books
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Sat, 17 Jul 1999 15:23:55 GMT
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Many video tapes can give you building ideas for machines.
Construction equipment stars frequently in videos. For example, bulldozers,
backhoes, forklifts, tower cranes, payloaders, drag lines, dump trucks, and
excavators move about under the control of real operators. You can watch
the machines work with materials, e.g., beams and scrap. You can see the
position of the parts and how they move relative to each other. Some
movements use lift arms, gears, pulleys, and pistons (like LEGO
pneumatics).
You can find these videos at your public library in the childrens library
or the juvenile section of instructional videos. Some recommended titles
include: There Goes a Bulldozer (more than just bulldozers), I Dig Dirt, I
Love Big Machines. Any title that starts with There Goes a . . . also
appears good and covers other machines, e.g., firetruck, airplane,
helicopter, truck, monster truck, train, and more. The library title and
subject catalog will help you find these videos because they do not always
appear on the same shelf.
While at the library you might also search for machine books in the
children's section. These book clearly illustrate and explain levers,
pulleys, and gears. You can easily adapt LEGO Technic parts to make these
simple machines.
After you master some simple machines, you should look at a book titled
Mill by David Macaulay. It clearly illustrates the construction of several
types of manufacturing mills during the past few hundred years. You can
use LEGO brick to make the building, Technic parts to make the mechanical
components, and minifigs for the workers in your own mill.
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| Another really good book is "The Big Book of Things That Go" from Scholastic Press. I usually take my kids to the library so I can hang around the kids books without getting creepy looks from the other parents... Cheers, Ralph Hempel - P.Eng (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jul-99, to lugnet.build)
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