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02435aam a2200349 i 4500 001 947935907B2811EB8960C99555ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210302012545 007 n 008 200225s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 010 $a 2020009537 020 $a 1644210185 020 $a 9781644210185 040 $d TxAuBib $e rda $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h fre 100 1 $a Menu, Saeraphine,. 245 1 $a Biomimicry : $b when nature inspires amazing inventions / $c Saeraphine Menu ; illustrated by Emmanuelle Walker ; translated from the French by Alyson Waters. 264 1 $a New York : $b Seven Stories Press, $c [2020] 300 $a 77 pages : $b color illustrations ; $c 30 cm. 520 $a "Discover how bats led to the development of radar, whales inspired the pacemaker, and the lotus flower may help us produce indestructible clothing. "Biomimicry" comes from the Greek "bio" (life) and "mimesis" (imitation). Here are various and amazing ways that nature inspires us to create cool inventions in science and medicine, clothing design, and architecture. From the fireflies that showed inventors how LEDs could give off more light to the burdock plant that inspired velcro to the high speed trainsof Japan that take the form of a kingfisher's sleek, aerodynamic head, there are innumerable ways that we can create smarter, better, safer inventions by observing the natural world. Author Seraphine Menu and illustrator Emmanuelle Walker also gently explain that our extraordinary, diverse, and awe-inspiring world is like a carefully calibrated machine and its fragile balance must be treated with extreme care and respect. "Go outside," they say, "observe, compare, and maybe some day you'll be the next person to be struck by a great idea.""-- $c Provided by publisher. 521 $a Grades 4-6 $b Seven Stories Press. 541 $d 20201210. 650 7 $a JUVENILE NONFICTION / Technology / How Things Work-Are Made. 650 7 $a JUVENILE NONFICTION / Technology / Inventions. 650 $a Technological innovations $v Juvenile literature. 650 $a Biomimicry $v Juvenile literature. 650 7 $a JUVENILE NONFICTION / Science & Nature / Discoveries. 700 $a Walker, Emmanuelle, $e illustrator. 710 $a Menu, Saeraphine, $d New York : Seven Stories Press, 2020. 941 $a 1 952 $l DBPE173 $d 20210302015129.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=947935907B2811EB8960C99555ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search