Backyard Ballistics: Build Potato Cannons, Paper Match Rockets, Cincinnati Fire Kites, Tennis Ball Mortars, and More Dynamite Devices FROM THE PUBLISHER
This step-by-step guide enables ordinary folks to construct 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.
FROM THE CRITICS
The Daily Oklahoman
"...shows the safe way to amaze and annoy your neighbors with amateur science projects."
Constable - Arlington Heights Daily Herald
Offers a safe, cheap, and legal, labor-intensive and intellectually
challenging to the 'oops I blew off my fingers' debacle.
Chicago Tribune
Would-be rocketeers, take note: Engineer William Gurstelle has written a book for you.
St. Paul Pioneer Press
13 projects engineered to be safe yet exciting and able to be built with household and hardware-store supplies.
Journal of Chemical Education
Fun and thrilling.Read all 8 "From The Critics" >
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
"If you'd like to launch a potato in a blazing fireball of combusting hairspray from a PVC pipe, this is your best source.
— New York, New York
"Your inner boy will get a bang out of these 13 devices to build and shoot in your own backyard, some of them noisy enough to legally perk up a 4th of July."
— DallasNews.com
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