From Karl Benz's first gasoline-powered car in 1885 to today's family sedan, cars of the future, and exotic Formula 1 racers, kids learn how the internal combustion engine works, and how transmissions and drive trains propel cars of all types. The profusely illustrated How It Works Books present brief histories of engineering development. Detail drawings show mechanical parts and cut-away illustrations show how the parts are assembled and work together. This book's lift-the-flap illustrations reveal successive layers of detail in automobile construction.

 

This book is part of a book series called How It Works .

This book has been graded for interest at 7-13 years.

There are 16 pages in this book. This book was published 2010 by Barron's Educational Series .

Nicholas Harris is a prolific non-fiction writer and is the head of Orpheus Books. Dereen Taylor has been writing and editing children's books for more than fifteen years. She specializes in writing fiction and activity books for younger readers. Tim Hutchinson is an experienced artist and illustrator.