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Meet ingenious inventors pushing limits: rockets, robots, and pumpkin chunking!
Adventures From The Technology Underground
Catapults, Pulsejets, Rail Guns, Flamethrowers, Tesla Coils, Air Cannons and the Garage Warriors Who Love Them
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224 pages
- Release Date
23 January 2007
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Summary
For fans of popular-science books like The Evolution of Useful Things and Rocket Boys, for devotees of the Discovery Channel, the Learning Channel, and National Geographic Explorer, and for the millions of men who spend their spare time tinkering in the garage.
The technology underground is a thriving, humming, and often literally scintillating subculture of amateur inventors and scientific envelope-pushers who dream up, design, and build machines that whoosh, rumble…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780307351258 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0307351254 |
| Author: | William Gurstelle |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Three Rivers Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 23 January 2007 |
| Weight: | 175g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 129mm |
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About The Author
William Gurstelle
William Gurstelle is the author of Backyard Ballistics, Building Bots, and The Art of the Catapult. He lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.
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