Backyard Ballistics: Build Potato Cannons, Paper Match Rockets, Cincinnati Fire Kites, Tennis Ball Mortars, and More Dynamite Devices | 
| Author: William Gurstelle
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
List Price: $16.95
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Rating:  48 reviews
Sales Rank: 981
Media: Paperback
Edition: illustrated edition
Pages: 192
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 6.9 x 0.6
ISBN: 1556523750
Dewey Decimal Number: 531.55078
EAN: 9781556523755
ASIN: 1556523750
Publication Date: June 1, 2001
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Product Description
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, 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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 Very cool with adult help July 3, 2009
Kate Robinson (near Boston, MA)
This book is all that it promises and more. It is a terrifically fun way to learn science! All instructions are there, hints for the most fun, safety, etc. The projects are definitely dangerous alone, so adult assistance is required for anyone under 18 who wants to tackle these projects. However, they are a terrific bonding event for parents and children! We home school and this was hands-on science at its best--lots of fun, unlike labs where you just watch pill bugs who (for whatever reason) don't behave the way they are "supposed to" for the experiment, etc. These projects produce results and better yet teach at the same time. Kids (and parents) will find reasons to learn more about chemistry, physics, etc. And, it will be fun as the research will again have hands-on applications. The projects make you feel like you are Benjamin Franklin in the thunderstorm with your kite and key...(for a correction on that historical event, check out a history book)!
 Not new condition as described June 29, 2009
S. Fardy (Boston, MA)
0 out of 15 found this review helpful
The book itself is great, and it did show up in a timely fashion. The book was described as being in new condition, however, upon receipt, pages were slightly bent and I found a chocolate wrapper in the pages... could not give it as a gift as intended.
Thank you, police June 18, 2009
Craig Cooper (Dallas, TX)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
When we were kids we learned how to build a lot of this stuff by studying -- get this -- a police display of banned and home-made weapons at a mall!
Anything we didn't understand, we just asked the cop at the display.
Genius!
 OMG too much fun for human consumption June 11, 2009
kdj (Philadelphia)
Sweet Book!
The detail oriented historian will probably have some issues with some of the particulars in his history, but anyone buying this book for the history lessons is shopping in the wrong section of the bookstore.
Great basic engineering, great explanations, great fun projects.
Bored college students should not get this book unless they have a good working relationship with their Dean of Students.
 Supervision Required January 6, 2009
James D. Amstutz (Johnson City, TN)
3 out of 9 found this review helpful
I bought this book for my 11 year old son, thinking he would be able to put some of these together himself. These are clearly devices that rquire supervision not only for firing, but also for constructing. Very cool, but not for independent assembly.
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