Underground
Underground
Macaulay, David
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Houghton Mifflin
Annotation: Text and drawings describe the subways, sewers, building foundations, telephone and power systems, columns, cables, pipes, tunnels, and other underground elements of a large modern city.
Genre: [Engineering]
 
Reviews: 3
Catalog Number: #4843922
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Copyright Date: 1976
Edition Date: 1976 Release Date: 03/23/83
Pages: 109 pages
ISBN: 0-395-34065-9
ISBN 13: 978-0-395-34065-3
Dewey: 624
Dimensions: 28 cm.
Subject Heading:
Underground utility lines. Juvenile literature.
Underground construction. Juvenile literature.
Underground utility lines.
Underground construction.
City and town life.
Language: English
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Word Count: 8,389
Reading Level: 8.7
Interest Level: 5-9
Accelerated Reader: reading level: 8.7 / points: 2.0 / quiz: 75174 / grade: Middle Grades
Reading Counts!: reading level:6.9 / points:4.0 / quiz:Q11991
Lexile: 1230L

David Macaulay takes us on a visual journey through a city's various support systems by exposing a typical section of the underground network and explaining how it works. We see a network of walls, columns, cables, pipes and tunnels required to satisfy the basic needs of a city's inhabitants.

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