Eagle Book of Modern Wonders covers all the topics considered to be at the forefront
of technology in the late 1950's. Britain still had a ship building industry and the world's greatest
bridges and tunnels warrant 14 pages of description.
Original Price : Unknown
Published by : Hulton Press Ltd. First published in 1953, Third revised edition in 1958
Dimensions : 21.5cm x 26cm with 192 pages.
Selected highlights:
- Open topped racing cars
- Delta-wing aircraft break the sound barrier multi-times over.
- Various combine harvesters are shown in cutaway form
- Photographs of cavitation of propellers
| Contents | ||
|---|---|---|
| Chapter | Page | |
| 1 | Exploring space | 7 |
| 2 | Exploring the bed of the sea | 17 |
| 3 | From muscle power to atomic energy | 33 |
| 4 | Heavyweights of industry: coal, iron and steel | 48 |
| 5 | Speed and efficiency on the railways | 59 |
| 6 | Building ships and keeping them safe | 70 |
| 7 | Marvels of modern motoring | 87 |
| 8 | The world's great bridges and tunnels | 98 |
| 9 | Wings of tomorrow | 113 |
| 10 | New weapons in the doctor's armoury | 128 |
| 11 | Britain's police force at work | 139 |
| 12 | New ways down on the farm | 150 |
| 13 | The camera captures time, light and sound | 159 |
| 14 | New raw materials for industry | 174 |
| 15 | Sending silent sound and invisble pictures | 185 |
THIS BOOK HAS
BEEN WRITTEN BY
Cecil J. Allen: George Howard: David Le Roi: Dennis May:
Walter Shepherd: John W.R. Taylor: Martin Thornhill.
| Colour plates | |
|---|---|
| Between pages | |
| Inside a great power station | 56-57 |
| Future atomic power station | 56-57 |
| The magic eye of harbour radar | 72-73 |
| Through the Panama Canal | 72-73 |
| Sydney Harbour Bridge | 104-105 |
| A double-leaf bascule bridge | 104-105 |
| The combine harvester | 152-153 |
| A potato-harvester | 152-153 |