01794cam a2200253 4500 57615664 TxAuBib 20100111120000.0 010126s2001||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2001017321 9781556523755 alk. paper 1556523750 alk. paper DLC DLC NOR XY4 BAKER IG# BTCTA YDXCP CO3 NLK TxAuBib Gurstelle, William. Backyard ballistics : build potato cannons, paper match rockets, Cincinnati fire kites, tennis ball mortars, and more dynamite devices / William Gurstelle. Chicago : Chicago Review Press, 2001. xix, 169 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Includes index. This step-by-step guide enables ordinary folks to construct 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. With a strong emphasis on safety, Backyard Ballistics also provides troubleshooting tips, explains the physics behind each project, and profiles such scientists and extraordinary experimenters as Alfred Nobel, Robert Goddard, and Isaac Newton, among others. This book will be indispensable for the legions of backyard toy-rocket launchers and fireworks fanatics who wish every day were the Fourth of July. 20100111. Science Experiments Juvenile non-fiction. Ballistics Juvenile non-fiction. Rocketry Juvenile non-fiction.