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In the sky : designs inspired by nature /

Home to birds, bats, insects and towering tree tops, our skies are full of nature's best inventions. The world above our heads has inspired everything from our first forays into flight to outer-space cameras. Let your imagination soar as we take to the skies and discover how nature's desig...

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Main Authors: Evans, Harriet (Author)
Group Author: Viana, Gonçalo
Published: 360 Degrees,
Publisher Address: London :
Publication Dates: 2020.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
Industrial design > Juvenile literature.
Biomimicry > Juvenile literature.
Inventions > History > Juvenile literature.
Biomimicry.
Industrial design.
Inventions.
Summary: Home to birds, bats, insects and towering tree tops, our skies are full of nature's best inventions. The world above our heads has inspired everything from our first forays into flight to outer-space cameras. Let your imagination soar as we take to the skies and discover how nature's designs can become our blueprints.
Carrier Form: 40 pages : color illustrations ; 27 x 27 cm
ISBN: 9781848579408 (hardback) :
1848579403 (hardback)
CLC: TB47-49
Call Number: TB47-49/E926
Contents: Plane talking -- Fly like a bird -- Bird big shots -- To infinity and beyond -- Tree-mendous buildings -- Hive homes and window webs -- Green machines -- Light bulb moment -- Injections and stopping infections -- What's the big eye-dea? -- Looking pretty fly -- Survival instincts -- Bat nav -- Birds and bees -- Wood wide web -- Coming in to land... -- Glossary of terms.

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