Backyard Ballistics: Build Potato Cannons, Paper Match Rockets, Cincinnati Fire Kites, Tennis Ball Mortars and More Dynamite Devices | 
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| Author: William Gurstelle
Publisher: A Cappella Books,U.S.
Category: Book
List Price: £11.50
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 16876
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 274
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: July 1, 2001
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 Take cover March 16, 2006
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is a really fascinating read.
Strong emphasis is placed on safety and is ideal for Parental supervision of all the projects.The story of the atomic spud gun is worth buying the book on it's own.
 Unbelievably mad, incredibaly fun January 19, 2005
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
Unlike most books like it this is a manual is genuinely full of easy to do projects. If you looking for something special in coimbination with this I reccommend "Home Workshop Explosives" by Uncle Fester. This combination is not for the faint of heart! Overall an excellent addition to my collection.
Wow. July 30, 2004
14 out of 15 found this review helpful
A superb, but sadly probably marginally legal in my jurisdiction, introduction to the destructive delights of the hairspray powered potato gun amongst many, beautifully detailed little projects. For all of us who watch "junkyard wars", or as we have it "Scrapheap Challenge", this book is a rallying call to visit the plumbers supply house and detonate some spuds. The book is strong on details, suggestions for further "research" and lots of pertinent history. Highly recommended.
Step-by-step mad stuff to make, or, toys for the boys. November 7, 2001
52 out of 54 found this review helpful
A handbook for bored, thirty-something children (like myself) on how to make potato cannons, tennis ball mortars, catapults and the like from the comfort of their garden shed.
Twelve projects from the ridiculously easy to the fairly time consuming, packed into 169 pages of juvenile playhem. Good instructions, clear pictures and photos, and all done with the emphasis on safety.
There is also a fair amount of explanation concerning the actual physics behind the projects and a look at historical figures such as Newton and Archimedes.
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