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Backyard ballistics : build potato cannons, paper match rockets, Cincinnati fire kites, tennis ball mortars, and more dynamite devices Cover Image Book Book

Backyard ballistics : build potato cannons, paper match rockets, Cincinnati fire kites, tennis ball mortars, and more dynamite devices

Gurstelle, William. (Author).

Summary: 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.

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  • ISBN: 1613740646
  • ISBN: 9781613740644
  • Physical Description: xxiii, 210 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
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  • Edition: 2nd ed.
  • Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : Chicago Review Press, 2012.

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General Note:
"Expanded and even more explosive."
Includes index.
Originally published: Chicago : Chicago Review Press, ©2001.
Formatted Contents Note: Keeping safety in mind -- The potato cannon -- Back porch rocketry -- The Cincinnati fire kite -- Greek fire and the catapult -- The tennis ball mortar -- The sublimator -- The flinger -- Pnewton's petard -- The powder keg -- The dry cleaner bag balloon -- The carbide cannon -- The electromagnetic pipe gun -- The ballistic pendulum.

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Backyard Ballistics : Build Potato Cannons, Paper Match Rockets, Cincinnati Fire Kites, Tennis Ball Mortars, and More Dynamite Devices
Backyard Ballistics : Build Potato Cannons, Paper Match Rockets, Cincinnati Fire Kites, Tennis Ball Mortars, and More Dynamite Devices
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Backyard Ballistics : Build Potato Cannons, Paper Match Rockets, Cincinnati Fire Kites, Tennis Ball Mortars, and More Dynamite Devices

William Gurstelle is the author of The Practical Pyromaniac, Absinthe Flamethrowers, The Art of the Catapult, and Building Bots. He is a professional engineer who has been researching and building DIY projects for more than 30 years. He is the Pyrotechnics and Ballistics Editors at Popular Mechanics, a contributing editor at Make magazine, and writes frequently for Wired, Gizmodo, and BoingBoing.

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