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Cats' Paws and Catapults: Mechanical Worlds of Nature and People Hardcover - 1998

by Steven Vogel; Kathryn K. Davis (Illustrator); Preface by Steven Vogel


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Human technology has taken 10,000 years to develop; natures mechanical designs are billions of years old. Both technologies share the same physical environment but produce vastly different results. Human designers love right angles, but nature is typically rounded and its angles are diverse. We use wheels in numerous ways, yet nature's only true wheels lie in bacteria. We prefer to make surface ships, while nature swims. Our hinges turn because their parts slide, whereas natural hinges (such as a rabbit's ear) turn by bending their flexible materials.

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  • Title Cats' Paws and Catapults: Mechanical Worlds of Nature and People
  • Author Steven Vogel; Kathryn K. Davis (Illustrator); Preface by Steven Vogel
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 382
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher W. W. Norton & Company, New York
  • Date 1998-05
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780393046410 / 0393046419
  • Weight 1.4 lbs (0.64 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.58 x 6.46 x 1.23 in (24.33 x 16.41 x 3.12 cm)
  • Reading level 1210
  • Library of Congress subjects Mechanics, Biomechanics
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 97-44807
  • Dewey Decimal Code 571.43
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