Vacuum Bazookas, Electric Rainbow Jelly, and 27 Other Saturday Science Projects / / Neil A. Downie.
How do you crack nuts with a piece of string? Reverse gravity? Cobble together a clock out of a coffee cup, a soda bottle, and some water? Use a vacuum cleaner and nineteenth-century railroad technology to fashion a makeshift bazooka that can launch paper projectiles? Create a rainbow in a block of...
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents in Brief
- Contents in Detail
- Project Ratings
- Preface
- Kinetic Curiosities
- 1. Hovering Rings
- 2. Dynabrolly
- 3. Gravity Reversal
- 4. Maypole Drill
- 5. Rotarope
- Strong String Things
- 6. String Nutcracker
- 7. Twisted Sinews
- Strong Nothing
- 8. Vacuum Muscles
- 9. Vacuum Bazooka
- Sounds Peculiar
- 10. String Radio
- 11. Mole Radio
- 12. Bat Doppler
- Transmissions with Omissions
- 13. Toothless Gearwheels
- 14. Flying Pulleys
- Clocks without Cuckoos or Quartz
- 15. The Crank and the Pendulum
- 16. A Symphony of Siphons
- 17. Bernoulli's Clock
- Curious Conveyances
- 18. Dougall or Vibrocraft
- 19. Follow That Sunbeam
- 20. Duohelicon
- 21. Fishy Boat
- 22. Rotarudder
- 23. Cable Yacht
- Antediluvian Electronics
- 24. Beard Amplifier
- 25. Tornado Transistor
- Electric Water
- 26. Meltdown Alarm
- 27. Electric Rainbow Jelly
- Infernal Inventions
- 28. Binary Match
- 29. Ultimate Bunsen Burner
- Useful Materials and Components
- A Reminder about Units
- Bibliography
- Index