Backyard ballistics : build potato cannons, paper match rockets, Cincinnati fire kites, tennis ball mortars, and more dynamite devices / William Gurstelle.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 1556523750
- ISBN: 9781556523755
- Physical Description: xix, 169 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: Chicago : Chicago Review Press, [2001]
- Copyright: ©2001
Content descriptions
General Note: | Includes index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 1. Keeping safety in mind -- 2. The potato cannon -- 3. Back porch rocketry -- 4. The Cincinnati fire kite -- 5. Greek fire and the catapult -- 6. The tennis ball mortar -- 7. The flinger -- 8. Pnewton's petard -- 9. The dry cleaner bag balloon -- 10. The carbide cannon -- 11. The ballistic pendulum. |
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Subject: | Science > Experiments. Ballistics > Experiments. |
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