Double Helix Issue 59
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Learn all about engineering, make your own fiery rockets, and electrify a toy car!
This issue, we’re exploring engineering! Come with us as we meet engineers making bridges from spaghetti, and creating toys that change into robots. Still not sure what engineers do? We’ve got a great explainer for you! And for something completely different, we check out some of Australia’s largest reptiles. + Full description
Ready to try engineering for yourself? Try making your own fiery rockets, or a machine that makes your pictures bigger. And to really exercise your inner engineer, why not electrify a toy car?
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Publication date: 15 October 2022.
Details
Magazine | October 2022 | $ 9.99ISBN: DH08/59 | 40 pages | 297 x 210 mm
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
Colour illustrations, Colour photographs
Contents
FeaturesMEASURE UP! AUSTRALIAN REPTILES – From crocs to snakes, meet Australia’s biggest reptiles.
THE LOWDOWN ON ENGINEERING – Explore what engineering is and what engineers do.
READY, SET, SPAGHETTI! – Uni students from Tassie compete in their annual pasta bridge building competition.
SAY CHEESE! TOUR A CAMERA MUSEUM – Photographer Michael Petersen shows how cameras have changed in the last 200 years.
PROJECT TRAMSFORMATION! – David Li designed and built a toy tram that converts into a robot.
Regulars
Snippets
Poster
Reviews
Time-travelling Shed
Planetary Post
Tech Timelines
Back of the Envelope
Microscope
Fiction
Activities
We Have Lift Off
Electrify A Car
Make It Comic
Puzzles
Competitions
Engineering Genius
Junior Engineer
Wind Power
The Double Helix Sustainability Squad
Authors
The Double Helix team is part of CSIRO Publishing and has a long-standing reputation for delivering expertly written, fascinating and fun science material for young people, with an aim to foster an interest in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM).
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