The movements of birds and animals, fish and insects have long attracted the attention of a person who dreams of moving on land, water and air just as easily and gracefully. However, many millennia passed before people created the science of movement - mechanics - and managed to find materials and create structures that are not inferior in speed and range of movement to any representatives of the animal world. Indeed, planes rise above all birds, bathyscaphes sink deeper than almost all fish and marine animals, cars overtake any animals. But scientists and designers are constantly studying those features of wildlife that would allow machines and mechanisms not only to break records, but also to move and work as smoothly and gracefully, silently and harmlessly as, for example, dolphins or dragonflies do.
From Alexander Leonovich's book "Bionics: Suggested by Nature" you will learn a lot about technical inventions and unusual abilities of animals. How do animals change color? What is "echolocation"? How to predict a storm or an earthquake? What allows you to see better in the dark and underwater? What are vibrissae for? There are answers to these many other questions.
Author: Alexander Leonovich
Pages: 256 (offset). Hard cover
Dimensions: 212x144x17 mm
Series: Simple Science for Kids
