About this title: Ordinary folks can construct 13 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 - a match-powered rocket - to the more complex - a scale-model, table-top catapult - to the offbeat - a tennis ball cannon. 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 ...
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Chicago Review Press, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9781556523755ISBN:1556523750
Description: Fine. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. "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, Rpbert 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. " This book has 169 pages and is illustrated. read more
Edition: 1st trade paperback edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Chicago Review Press, Chicago
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9781556523755ISBN:1556523750
Description: As new. Octavo (8vo) 9.75 x 7 inches bound in stiff pictorial wraps. xix [iii], 169 pp. Illustrated with numerous black and white images. "One is tempted to dub it 'the official manual for real boys'! "--Dava Sobel, author of Longitude and Galileo's Daughter. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Chicago Review Pr
Date Published: 2001-06-01
ISBN-13:9781556523755ISBN:1556523750
Description: NEW. Softcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9781556523755. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: CHICAGO REVIEW PR
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9781556523755ISBN:1556523750
Description: New. Ordinary folks can construct 13 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 proje... read more
"I go to this reference so many times. Cincinnati Fire Kites last night for example. We first used this when Bennett was 5, and it was a great help this year when Will wanted to install a grenade launcher on the lawn mower."
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