Backyard Ballistics: Build Potato Cannons, Paper Match Rockets, Cincinnati Fire Kites, Tennis Ball Mortars, and More Dynamite Devices
"13 projects engineered to be safe yet exciting and able to be built with household and hardware-store supplies" --St. Paul Pioneer Press"Fun and thrilling" --Journal of Chemical Education"Offers a safe, cheap, and legal, labor-intensive and intellectually challenging to the 'oops I blew off my fingers' debacle." --Burt Constable,Arlington Heights Daily Herald"To inspire kids to spend more time exploring science" --The Plain Dealer"Would-be rocketeers, take note: Engineer William Gurstelle has written a book for you." --Chicago Tribune...shows the safe way to amaze and annoy your neighbors with amateur science projects. --The Daily OklahomanIf you'd like to launch a potato in a blazing fireball of combusting hairspray, this is your best source. --Time Out New YorkYour inner boy will get a bang out of these devices to build and shoot in your own back yard. --DallasNews.com