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Author Gurstelle, William.

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

Edition Second edition.
Publication Info. Chicago : Chicago Review Press, 2012.
©2001
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1544384~S1
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 Nichols Adult Nonfiction  531.55078 GUR    DUE 05-13-24
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Description xxiii, 210 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Note "Expanded and even more explosive" -- Front cover.
Includes index.
Contents 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.
Summary This bestsellling guide has been expanded and updated, enabling ordinary folks to construct even more exciting ballistic devices in their garage or basement workshops than ever before -- Back cover.
Subject Science -- Experiments.
Ballistics -- Experiments.
ISBN 9781613740644
1613740646
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