Experiments category: 574 books
by Chandra Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
Can You Save The World?
It’s so easy to be overwhelmed by everything that is wrong in the world. In 2010, there were 660,000 deaths from malaria. Dire predictions about climate change suggest that sea levels could rise enough to submerge both Los Angeles and London by 2100. Bees are dying,...
Amazing Rubber Band Cars
Easy-to-Build Wind-Up Racers, Models, and Toys
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Combining fun and interactive activities, this guide will have kids captivated for hours constructing fantastic racing cars with the basics of only rubber bands, cardboard, and glue. These simple instructions with templates allow budding engineers to gain hands-on experience as they learn not only...
Backyard Ballistics
Build Potato Cannons, Paper Match Rockets, Cincinnati Fire Kites, Tennis Ball Mortars, and More Dynamite Devices
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
This bestselling DIY handbook now features new and expanded projects, enabling ordinary folks to construct 16 awesome ballistic devices in their garage or basement workshops using inexpensive household or hardware store materials and this step-by-step guide. Clear instructions, diagrams, and photographs...
Ready the Cannons!
Build Wiffle Ball Launchers, Beverage Bottle Bazookas, Hydro Swivel Guns, and Other Artisanal Artillery
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
From the author of Backyard Ballistics comes this new DIY handbook on building cannons and other fun things that shoot, from wiffle ball launchers and beverage bottle bazookas to super-powered water guns and model culverins. It combines military history and physics with do-it-yourself projects. Now...
Whoosh Boom Splat
Build Jam Jar Jets, Elastic Zip Cannons, Clothespin Snap Shooters, and More Legendary Launchers
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
In this revised and expanded edition, William Gurstelle shows ordinary folks how to build a dozen fun and impressively powerful launchers with inexpensive household and hardware store materials. This new edition includes three new projects along with diagrams, photographs, and fascinating science...
by Stewart Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2015
The third instalment of a real life journey through the world of learning to remote view, with session data, thoughts, insights and analysis. This volume contains detailed thoughts and analysis of the United Kingdoms declassified remote viewing papers, as well as a playful challenge and shows the journey of getting to grips with meaningful databasing.
Duct Tape Engineer
The Book of Big, Bigger, and Epic Duct Tape Projects
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
In* Duct Tape Engineer--the book of Big, Bigger, and Epic Duct Tape Projects *hands-on educator, master tinkerer, and author of Rubber Band Engineer, Lance Akiyama breaks away from table-top crafts and shows you how to design, sculpt, and build backpacks, kayaks, catapults, a queen-size bed,...
Launchers, Lobbers, and Rockets Engineer
Make 20 Awesome Ballistic Blasters with Ordinary Stuff
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
After the huge successes of Rubber Band Engineer and Duct Tape Engineer, we finally take away the boundaries of a single category and let author Lance Akiyama create twenty devious weapons of backyard warfare.
Each of these launchers are made from PVC, soda bottles, rubber bands, hairspray...
The Malaria Project
The U.S. Government's Secret Mission to Find a Miracle Cure
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
A fascinating and shocking historical exposé, The Malaria Project is the story of America's secret mission to combat malaria during World War II—a campaign modeled after a German project which tested experimental drugs on men gone mad from syphilis.
American war planners, foreseeing the...
Scientific Authorship
Credit and Intellectual Property in Science
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by Ken Ramsey
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
It has been said, that the wealth a person accumulates is proportional to the number of people that are served. Thomas Edison, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs are examples. Past problems confronted from local communities to individual governments and even the interactions between national governments. Today,...
by E. A. Burtt
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
To the medieval thinker, man was the center of creation and all of nature existed purely for his benefit. The shift from the philosophy of the Middle Ages to the modern view of humanity’s less central place in the universe ranks as the greatest revolution in the history of Western thought, and this...
Agents of Bioterrorism
Pathogens and Their Weaponization
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2008
This new work offers a clear and thorough account of the threats posed by bioterrorism from the perspective of biologists. The authors examine thirteen disease-causing agents, including those responsible for anthrax, the plague, smallpox, influenza, and SARS. Each chapter considers a particular pathogen...
by Swapan Chattopadhyay, Joseph David Lykken
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
Fermilab — originally called the National Accelerator Laboratory — began operations in Illinois on June 15, 1967. Operated and managed by The University of Chicago and Universities Research Association, LLC for the U