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"Would-be rocketeers, take note: Engineer William Gurstelle has written a book for you."
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"To inspire kids to spend more time exploring science"
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"When you were a child, people told you not to play with matches for a good reason-they can be dangerous!" Read the first page
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73 of 74 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
A handbook for bored, thirty-something children (like myself) on how to make potato cannons, tennis ball mortars, catapults and the like from the comfort of their garden shed.
Twelve projects from the ridiculously easy to the fairly time consuming, packed into 169 pages of juvenile playhem. Good instructions, clear pictures and photos, and all done with the emphasis on safety.
There is also a fair amount of explanation concerning the actual physics behind the projects and a look at historical figures such as Newton and Archimedes.
Twelve projects from the ridiculously easy to the fairly time consuming, packed into 169 pages of juvenile playhem. Good instructions, clear pictures and photos, and all done with the emphasis on safety.
There is also a fair amount of explanation concerning the actual physics behind the projects and a look at historical figures such as Newton and Archimedes.
20 of 21 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Unlike most books like it this is a manual is genuinely full of easy to do projects. If you looking for something special in coimbination with this I reccommend "Home Workshop Explosives" by Uncle Fester. This combination is not for the faint of heart! Overall an excellent addition to my collection.
24 of 26 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
A superb, but sadly probably marginally legal in my jurisdiction, introduction to the destructive delights of the hairspray powered potato gun amongst many, beautifully detailed little projects.
For all of us who watch "junkyard wars", or as we have it "Scrapheap Challenge", this book is a rallying call to visit the plumbers supply house and detonate some spuds.
The book is strong on details, suggestions for further "research" and lots of pertinent history.
Highly recommended.
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Backyard ballistics
It is an interesting book that takes you through ways to make many different projectile firing things. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Keith
GOOD FUN
This bookibrought just to fill in a bit of time. I found it quite well explained with scope to improve the projects. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Mr. C. W. Dimmock
Backyard book review
A great book for when your board or those raining days which we have allot of in Wales. A lot of projects to make on your own with friends or family. Over all a great book
Published 7 months ago by Rhys Jones
Best book of its type I have bought
I went through a phase of interest in this type of "boys toys/science experiments" book and I think I bought 3 or 4 on the trot for toilet seat reading (puns unintentional). Read more
Published on 15 Jan 2010 by Mr. Mark Hatfield
Take cover
This is a really fascinating read.
Strong emphasis is placed on safety and is ideal for Parental supervision of all the projects. Read more
Strong emphasis is placed on safety and is ideal for Parental supervision of all the projects. Read more
Published on 16 Mar 2006
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