It takes the average reader 6 hours and 30 minutes to read Cats' Paws and Catapults: Mechanical Worlds of Nature and People by Steven Vogel
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"Full of ideas and well-explained principles that will bring new understanding of everyday things to both scientists and non-scientists alike."—R. McNeill Alexander, Nature Nature and humans build their devices with the same earthly materials and use them in the same air and water, pulled by the same gravity. Why, then, do their designs diverge so sharply? Humans, for instance, love right angles, while nature's angles are rarely right and usually rounded. Our technology goes around on wheels—and on rotating pulleys, gears, shafts, and cams—yet in nature only the tiny propellers of bacteria...
Cats' Paws and Catapults: Mechanical Worlds of Nature and People by Steven Vogel is 384 pages long, and a total of 97,536 words.
This makes it 130% the length of the average book. It also has 119% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 52 minutes to read Cats' Paws and Catapults: Mechanical Worlds of Nature and People aloud.
Cats' Paws and Catapults: Mechanical Worlds of Nature and People is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.
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