How to Catapult a Castle: Machines that Brought Down the Battlements

by James de Winter

Overview

Extreme From gravity defying athletes to the crime fighting properties of superglue science is behind all things extreme This action packed series presents incredible facts and stories behind how things work and why they happen Science has never been so extreme

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781429631389
Publisher:	Capstone
Publication date:	01/01/2009
Series:	Extreme!
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.20(d)
Lexile:	IG820L (what's this?)
Age Range:	8 - 11 Years

Table of Contents

Castles - from wood to stone — Building a castle — Keeping the enemy out — The spiked gate - Ladders and siege towers — Battering rams — Tunneling under and burning pigs — Longbows and flaming arrows — Deadly crossbows — How to catapult a castle! — Seesaw powered : the trebuchet — Cannons and superguns — Castles still standing.