Wings & Beaks: Technology Inspried by Animals

Wings & Beaks: Technology Inspried by Animals
Author: Tessa Miller
Publisher: Triangle Interactive, Inc.
Total Pages: 50
Release: 2020-12-23
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1684521246

Throughout time, people have looked to the skies and dreamt of flying. In 1903, the Wright brothers finally achieved flight, but only after years of studying birds. In Animal Tech: Wings & Beaks, readers will follow the stories of the scientists and engineers who have observed, studied, and mimicked the abilities of flying creatures, from bees and dragonflies to bats and birds. Students will be inspired to explore STEM fields after learning how the study of the skies has led to fascinating and life-changing technology that has shaped our world.

Wings & Beaks

Wings & Beaks
Author: Tessa Miller
Publisher: Animal Tech
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018-08
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781629207360

Read about scientists and engineers who have observed, studied, and mimicked the abilities of flying creatures, from bees and dragonflies to bats and birds.

Invented by Animals

Invented by Animals
Author: Christiane Dorion
Publisher: Designed by Nature
Total Pages: 78
Release: 2021-04-06
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0711260656

Humans think they invent everything, but the fact is, us animals have invented ways of solving problems, making unbelievable materials, ways of getting around and working out how to survive on our own for millions of years. In this book you will meet the animal inventors who have shared their super inventing powers to make amazing things for humans.

Machines through the Ages

Machines through the Ages
Author: Michael Woods
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books TM
Total Pages: 83
Release: 2024-01-01
Genre: Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN:

Ancient civilizations accomplished great works of engineering without electricity. From the Great Wall of China to Machu Picchu, discover the machines ancient civilizations used to build and how they influenced modern machines.

Transportation through the Ages

Transportation through the Ages
Author: Michael Woods
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books TM
Total Pages: 83
Release: 2024-08-01
Genre: Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN:

The ancient world saw many empires rise and fall. But how did massive empires such as Babylon or Rome move information and resources across continents? They relied on one of the oldest technologies in human history: transportation. Ever since humans first began migrating within and outside of Africa, they have needed transportation technology to help move themselves and their possessions. Beginning with shoes to support feet over rough ground and boats to traverse water, humans quickly created a wide range of inventions to help them move faster and carry more over long distances. From prehistoric hunting paths to the widespread highways of Rome, learn about the ancient transportation methods that shaped human history and paved the way for planes, trains, and superhighways.

Animal Rhetoric and Natural Science in Eighteenth-Century Liberal Political Writing

Animal Rhetoric and Natural Science in Eighteenth-Century Liberal Political Writing
Author: Andrew Billing
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2023-12-07
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1003812481

Our tendency to read French Enlightenment political writing from a narrow disciplinary perspective has obscured the hybrid character of political philosophy, rhetoric, and natural science in the period. As Michèle Duchet and others have shown, French Enlightenment thinkers developed a philosophical anthropology to support new political norms and models. This book explores how five important eighteenth-century French political authors—Rousseau, Diderot, La Mettrie, Quesnay, and Rétif de La Bretonne—also constructed a "political zoology" in their philosophical and literary writings informed by animal references drawn from Enlightenment natural history, science, and physiology. Drawing on theoretical work by Derrida, Latour, de Fontenay, and others, it shows how these five authors signed on to the old rhetorical tradition of animal comparisons in political philosophy, which they renewed via the findings and speculations of contemporary science. Engaging with recent scholarship on Enlightenment political thought, it also explores the links between their political zoologies and their family resemblance as "liberal" political thinkers.

Handbook of Bird Biology

Handbook of Bird Biology
Author: Irby J. Lovette
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 733
Release: 2016-06-27
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1118291042

Selected by Forbes.com as one of the 12 best books about birds and birding in 2016 This much-anticipated third edition of the Handbook of Bird Biology is an essential and comprehensive resource for everyone interested in learning more about birds, from casual bird watchers to formal students of ornithology. Wherever you study birds your enjoyment will be enhanced by a better understanding of the incredible diversity of avian lifestyles. Arising from the renowned Cornell Lab of Ornithology and authored by a team of experts from around the world, the Handbook covers all aspects of avian diversity, behaviour, ecology, evolution, physiology, and conservation. Using examples drawn from birds found in every corner of the globe, it explores and distills the many scientific discoveries that have made birds one of our best known - and best loved - parts of the natural world. This edition has been completely revised and is presented with more than 800 full color images. It provides readers with a tool for life-long learning about birds and is suitable for bird watchers and ornithology students, as well as for ecologists, conservationists, and resource managers who work with birds. The Handbook of Bird Biology is the companion volume to the Cornell Lab's renowned distance learning course, www.birds.cornell.edu/courses/home/homestudy/.

Laboratory Animal and Exotic Pet Medicine

Laboratory Animal and Exotic Pet Medicine
Author: Margi Sirois
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2015-07-24
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0323353940

- NEW! Updated design features more high-quality, full-color illustrations and a revised reader-friendly layout with learning objectives and key points to make content easier to follow.

Biomimetics

Biomimetics
Author: Yoseph Bar-Cohen
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 768
Release: 2016-04-19
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1439834776

A review of the current state of the art of biomimetics, this book documents key biological solutions that provide a model for innovations in engineering and science. Leading experts explore a wide range of topics, including artificial senses and organs; mimicry at the cell-materials interface; modeling of plant cell wall architecture; biomimetic composites; artificial muscles; biomimetic optics; and the mimicking of birds, insects, and marine biology. The book also discusses applications of biomimetics in manufacturing, products, medicine, and robotics; biologically inspired design as a tool for interdisciplinary education; and the biomimetic process in artistic creation.