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Backyard Ballistics Paperback - 2012

by William Gurstelle

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This bestselling DIY handbook now features new and expanded projects, enabling ordinary folks to construct 16 awesome ballistic devices using inexpensive household or hardware store materials.

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This bestselling DIY handbook now features new and expanded projects, enabling ordinary folks to construct 16 awesome ballistic devices in their garage or basement workshops using inexpensive household or hardware store materials and this step-by-step guide. Clear instructions, diagrams, and photographs show how to build projects ranging from the simple match-powered rocket to the more complex tabletop catapult and the offbeat Cincinnati fire kite. The classic potato cannon has a new evil twin--the piezo-electric spud gun and the electromagnetic pipe gun has joined the company of such favorites as the tennis ball mortar. With a strong emphasis on safety, the book also gives tips on troubleshooting, explains the physics behind the projects, and profiles scientists and extraordinary experimenters such as Alfred Nobel, Robert Goddard, and Isaac Newton. This book will be indispensable for the legions of backyard toy-rocket launchers and fireworks fanatics who wish every day was the fourth of July.

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  • Title Backyard Ballistics
  • Author William Gurstelle
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Second Edition,
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Chicago Review Press, US
  • Publication date 2012-09-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9781613740644 / 1613740646
  • Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.8 x 6.9 x 0.6 in (24.89 x 17.53 x 1.52 cm)
  • Category Science
  • Library of Congress subjects Science - Experiments, Ballistics - Experiments
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2015304704
  • Dewey Decimal Code 531.550

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  • Library Journal, 08/01/2012, Page 94

About the author

William Gurstelle is the author of Absinthe & Flamethrowers; The Art of the Catapult; Building Bots; The Practical Pyromaniac; Notes from the Technology Underground; and Whoosh, Boom, Splat. He is a professional engineer who has been researching and building model catapults and ballistic devices for more than 30 years and is a contributing editor at Popular Mechanics and Make magazine and writes frequently for Wired, The Rake, and several other national magazines. He lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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