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This First Book tells how modern machines help do the world's work. Just what are these machines? How do they do their jobs?

First, there are the machines that make the machines that turn out our thousands of daily products. Next, there are the machines that make these products. Finally, there are the machines that are themselves products, such as typewriters and automobiles.

Using these broad categories, the author discusses a wide selection of today's machines—modern glass blowers, internal combustion engines, millers and grinders, presses and saws, graders and cranes, and dozens of others.

And the most modern of our machine age miracles is also discussed; automation. Read how "electronic brains" operate; see in clear pictures how they improve our modern way of living.

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Walter Franklin Buehr

Walter Franklin Buehr

1897 - 1971
American
Walter Buehr, a native Chicagoan, studied art in Philadelphia, New York and Europe. After working for an automobile plant as a time-and-study man, h... See more

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The First Book of Machines
Reprinted in 2025 by Living Book Press
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The First Book of Machines
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