Title Vacuum bazookas, electric rainbow jelly, and 27 other Saturday science projects / Neil A. Downie ; illustrations by Jim Wilkinson

Published Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2001]

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations Contents Kinetic curiosities: Hovering rings -- Dynabrolly -- Gravity reversal -- Maypole drill -- Rotarope -- Strong string things: String nutcracker -- Twisted sinews -- Strong nothing: Vacuum muscles -- Vacuum bazooka -- Sounds peculiar: String radio -- Mole radio -- Bat Doppler -- Transmissions with omissions: Toothless gearwheels -- Flying pulleys -- Clocks without cuckoos or quartz: Crank and the pendulum -- Symphony of siphons -- Bernoulli's clock -- Curious conveyances: Dougall or vibrocraft -- Follow that sunbeam -- Duohelicon -- Fishy boat -- Rotarudder -- Cable yacht -- Antediluvian electronics: Beard amplifier -- Tornado transistor -- Electric water: Meltdown alarm -- Electric rainbow jelly -- Infernal inventions: Binary match -- Ultimate Bunsen burner Summary Presents thirty science projects that can be completed each on a single rainy afternoon Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-249) and index Notes Print version record Subject Science -- Experiments. SCIENCE -- Study & Teaching. Science -- Experiments Form Electronic book Author Wilkinson, Jim, illustrator ISBN 9780691188577 0691188572

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