Backyard ballistics
build potato cannons, paper match rockets, Cincinnati fire kites, tennis ball mortars, and more dynamite devices
2nd ed.
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Author
Publication
2012 - Chicago Review Press, Chicago, Ill, Illinois
Language
English
Word Count
52,500 words, Guess
Page Count
210 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL27138696M
- ISBN-139781613740644
- ISBN-101613740646
- OCLC Control Number806961084
- OCLC Control Numberbackyardballisti0000gurs_z3r8
and 1 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2001017321
Classifications
- LCCQ164 .G88 2012
Description
This updated and expanded step-by-step guide enables ordinary folks to construct more than 13 awesome ballistic devices using inexpensive household or hardware store materials. Clear instructions, diagrams, and photographs show how to build projects ranging from the simple, a match-powered rocket, to the more complex, a tabletop catapult, to the classic, the infamous potato cannon, to the offbeat, a Cincinnati fire kite. With a strong emphasis on safety, Backyard Ballistics also provides troubleshooting tips, explains the physics behind each project, and profiles such scientists and extraordinary experimenters as Alfred Nobel, Robert Goddard, and Isaac Newton, among others. This book will be indispensable for the legions of backyard toy-rocket launchers and fireworks fanatics who wish every day were the Fourth of July.
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- Backyard ballistics: build potato cannons, paper match rockets, Cincinnati fire kites, tennis ball mortars, and more dynamite devices
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