Our modern world is dependent on the engines that put power, or energy, to work for us. Earlier people had only muscle power, wind power, and water power. Today we use many additional kinds of power to run our cars and trains, our ships and planes and rockets, our vacuum cleaners and washing machines, our television receivers and other electronic devices.

In this book, Sam and Beryl Epstein give a lucid account of man's continuing search for new and more efficient methods for producing power. Joseph and Eva Cellini contribute expert drawings and explanatory diagrams. Together, text and illustrations explain the workings of gasoline and Diesel engines, turbines and steam engines, rockets and jets, electric generators and nuclear reactors.

All About Engines and Power is a stimulating introduction to a subject of widespread interest.

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