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"Mailardet's Automaton" Understanding Simple Machines

"Mailardet's Automaton" Understanding Simple Machines

This site is about a machine invented by Henri Maillardet around 1800. The machine is now in the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. One section of the site discusses simple machines.
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Date Added to MERLOT:
September 15, 2007
Date Modified in MERLOT:
September 30, 2015
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Jennifer Dukes
Historically Black Colleges and Universities
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Grade School
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English
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Jennifer Dukes
Jennifer Dukes (Student)
18 years ago
I believe the story of Maillardet's Automaton would capture students' interest as they begin a physics unit on simple machines. It shows how simple machines can be combined to create more complex machines. There was a page explaining each type of simple machine at an upper elementary reading level.