Zoom, Rocket, Zoom!

Author: Margaret Mayo
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1408328909
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

Book Description
Come on a fantastic adventure to the moon and deep into space! This exciting book is full of amazing astronauts and super space vehicles. Discover a different vehicle on each page, from rockets and moon buggies, to robot rovers, satellites and more. With bright, bold illustrations and fun, rhyming text, this is perfect for sharing and reading aloud. Little ones will love spotting all the details on each page and joining in with the lively text; as rockets 'zoom' and satellites 'whizz!' From the creators of the bestselling Dig Dig Digging.

Dig Dig Digging

Author: Margaret Mayo
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1408328879
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

Book Description
All the favourites are here in this bright, bold picture book for machine-mad little ones - from diggers and tractors, to cranes, bulldozers and more! With fun, rhyming text and vibrant artwork, this is perfect for sharing and reading aloud. Children will love spotting all the details on each page and joining in with all the different sounds; as tractors 'squelch' through the mud and dumper trucks go 'crash!'. Part of the best-selling Awesome Engines range.

Choo Choo Clickety-Clack!

Author: Margaret Mayo
Publisher: Carolrhoda Books
ISBN: 1467783730
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

Book Description
Boats, trains, cars, planes, bikes, buses, and balloons soar and race, taking people to faraway places. Bounce, zoom, and rattle along in this bright, playful book jam-packed with vehicles of all shapes and sizes.

Operation of a Cryogenic Rocket Engine

Author: Wolfgang Kitsche
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642105653
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 141

Book Description
This book presents the operational aspects of the rocket engine on a test facility. It will be useful to engineers and scientists who are in touch with the test facility. To aerospace students it shall provide an insight of the job on the test facility. And to interested readers it shall provide an impression of this thrilling area of aerospace.

Emergency!

Author: Margaret Mayo
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1408324946
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

Book Description
It's all go in this action-packed picture book. Discover a different emergency vehicle on each page, from fire engines and police cars to lifeboats, breakdown trucks, rescue helicopters and more. With bright, bold illustrations and fun, rhyming text, this is perfect for sharing with vehicle-mad little ones. Children will love spotting all the details on each page and joining in with all the different sounds; as speeding ambulances 'wheee-ow' and police cars 'vrooom'! Part of the best-selling Awesome Engines range.

History of Liquid Propellant Rocket Engines

Author: George Paul Sutton
Publisher: AIAA
ISBN: 9781563476495
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 936

Book Description
Liquid propellant rocket engines have propelled all the manned space flights, all the space vehicles flying to the planets or deep space, virtually all satellites, and the majority of medium range or intercontinental range ballistic missiles.

Roaring Rockets

Author: Tony Mitton
Publisher: Kingfisher
ISBN: 0753473712
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 22

Book Description
Amazing Machines: Roaring Rockets follows Rabbit, Bird, and Mouse as they zoom to the Moon in a bright and bold rhyming picture book! Each page is filled with details that machine-mad kids will love including spacesuits, gravity boots, oxygen helmets, and much more. From electric cars to powerful rockets, the internationally bestselling Amazing Machines series is the perfect way for children to learn about all sorts of machines and vehicles! Each book introduces a new vehicle or machine and the many jobs it can do. Ant Parker's bright, engaging artwork and Tony Mitton's simple, rhyming text combine to make these fantastic books for young children. Kids will love getting to know the friendly animal characters who feature throughout the series and reading about their fast-paced adventures! Continue to explore all things that go with the rest of the Amazing Machines series, including Cool Cars, Patrolling Police Cars, and Amazing Airplanes.

John Lingenfelter on Modifying Small-Block Chevy Engines

Author: John Lingenfelter
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9781557882387
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 182

Book Description
John Lingenfelter has been building, racing, and winning with small-block Chevy engines since 1972, when he arrived on the drag racing scene. This book offers many of his trademark power-producing techniques that have led to victory on the drag strip as well as on the Bonneville salt flats, where he set top speed records in his class.

Rocketdyne

Author: Robert S. Kraemer
Publisher: AIAA
ISBN: 9781563477546
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 296

Book Description
For the early history of rocketry up through the work of Dr. Robert Goddard in the early 1940s, the author referenced the history books of T.A. Heppenheimer and Frank Winter. The rest of the book is a chronicle of both the author's own memories and experiences as a member of the Rocketdyne team, as well as those of other keys members of this elite group.

Fundamentals of Rocket Propulsion

Author: DP Mishra
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1351708414
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 364

Book Description
The book follows a unified approach to present the basic principles of rocket propulsion in concise and lucid form. This textbook comprises of ten chapters ranging from brief introduction and elements of rocket propulsion, aerothermodynamics to solid, liquid and hybrid propellant rocket engines with chapter on electrical propulsion. Worked out examples are also provided at the end of chapter for understanding uncertainty analysis. This book is designed and developed as an introductory text on the fundamental aspects of rocket propulsion for both undergraduate and graduate students. It is also aimed towards practicing engineers in the field of space engineering. This comprehensive guide also provides adequate problems for audience to understand intricate aspects of rocket propulsion enabling them to design and develop rocket engines for peaceful purposes.