Main entry:

Salvadori, Mario, 1907-1997.

Title & Author:

Building : the fight against gravity / Mario Salvadori : drawings by Saralinda Hooker and Christopher Ragus.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

New York : Atheneum, 1979.

Description:

152 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
"A Margaret K. McElderry book."
Includes index.
From cave to skyscraper -- Building a tent -- What is a beam? -- What do we build structures with? -- Floor of your room -- Steel frame: Made out of paper -- Part of the building you don't see -- What tornadoes, earthquakes and temperature can do to buildings -- How to fight tornadoes and earthquakes -- Ropes and cables -- Sticks and stones -- Strings and sticks -- Shape and strength -- Barrels, dishes, butterflies, bicycle wheels and eggs -- Balloons: Back to the tent.
Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for Nonfiction, 1980

Summary:

An introduction to the basic principles of architecture and engineering including a discussion of structural materials and their properties and such problems as how skyscrapers are kept from swaying excessively and buildings prevented from sinking into the ground.

ISBN:

0689501447
9780689501449
0689710399
9780689710391

Subject:

Structural analysis (Engineering) Juvenile literature.
Building materials Juvenile literature.
Structural analysis (Engineering)
Building materials.
Théorie des constructions Ouvrages pour la jeunesse.
Construction Matériaux Ouvrages pour la jeunesse.
Structures, Theory of.
Building.

Form/genre:

Literature
Juvenile works
Littérature.

Added entries:

Hooker, Saralinda, illustrator.
Ragus, Christopher, illustrator.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 20906
Call No.: TA634.S24 (ID:87-B7977)
Status: Available