This bestselling DIY handbook now features new and expanded projects, enabling ordinary folks to construct 16 awesome ballistic devices in their garage or basement workshops using inexpensive household or hardware store materials and this stepbystep guide. Clear instructions, diagrams, and photographs show how to build projects ranging from the simple matchpowered rocket to the more complex tabletop catapult and the offbeat Cincinnati fire kite. The classic potato cannon has a new evil twinthe piezoelectric spud gun and the electromagnetic pipe gun has joined the company of such favorites as the tennis ball mortar. 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 toyrocket launchers and fireworks fanatics who wish every day was the fourth of July.

Binding: Paperback;240 pages; Publisher: Chicago Review Press; Classification: WDH; Weight: 512 g; Dimensions: 252 x 180 x 15

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