Look and Learn

Part of the Look & Learn series, which takes readers inside everyday built spaces one layer at a time. Each volume shows how science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics combine to keep these places running. This title focuses on the factory, where scientific advances let manufacturers turn out millions of goods around the globe.

The book explains how assembly lines quicken production and how robots take on jobs that are hazardous or repetitive. It also describes the ways factories have grown safer for the people who work in them.