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Preface ix
Projectiles 1
Exploding Disk Cannon 3
Learn about fracture propagation and launch projectiles
Designer Demolition 15
Balloon Detonator 18
Finish your party with a bang, not a whimper
Slowly Exploding Bolts 26
Boost your next moon rocket
New Motors 35
Vacuum Engine, or Negative Steam Engine 37
Transmit power with nothing
Rope Ratchet Motor 47
Power a motor with a piece of string
The 50-Cent Stepper Motor 53
Learn how modern motors work
Pushing String 61
The Pull-me-to-push-me 64
Pull a lot of string backward, and you can push a bit of string forward
Land Jiggers 70
Alternatively, try ice jiggers and go fishing with Inuit
Power Strings 75
What could be more annoying than rows of electricity pylons?
Whistling electricity pylons!
Peculiar Vehiculars 85
Ekranoplan 87
The close-shaving aircraft: is it a razor or an airplane?
Slimemobile 101
Keep your prop turning and don't run out of slime
Ball River Bobsled 107
This vehicle coasts on ball bearings
Skidmobile 113
Drive everywhere in a skid
Curious Controls 119
WetBlanket Valve Flow Control 121
Try to control this enthusiastic valve
Electrolytic Gas Pedal 126
Adapt an Edison loudspeaker as a speed control
Piezistor: A Victorian Amplifier 133
Madame Curie could have invented this transistor
Granules and Particules 141
Rice Grain Ski Jump 143
Try these sporting activities for cereals
Niagara Meter 149
Shadows show flow
Magical Magnetic Valveless Valves 155
Stir a little magnetism into your hourglass
A Balance of Air Blasts 164
Sweep gold dust from your carpet, leave the dog hairs behind
Perceptive Illusions 169
Hovering Images 171
Mirages appear with the aid of rotating lenses and mirrors
Moire Microscope 177
All you need are grids of tiny holes
Laser Light Shows 185
Exploding Laser Spots 187
Watch this laser-scattering light show
Instant Parabola Spots 192
It's all done with smoke and mirrors (and a laser)
Of Morse and Men 197
Messages in Wriggling Lines 200
Communicate with Morse pens and chartagrams
Helidoodle 207
Transmit images in spirals
Calculator Communicator 214
Send messages using this binary teleprinter
Instruments 221
Posture Meter 223
Are you sitting comfortably? This meter will tell you
No Smoke without Gas 228
Assemble the world's cheapest nucleonic gas analyzer
Spongy Gas 236
Soak up sounds with certain gases
Soda Water Gas Analyzer 243
Try the world's only drinkable gas analyzer
Electric Plastic 249
Turn a piece of packaging into a mini-chemistry lab
Chemical Corner 257
Electric Sand 259
Use triboelectricity for flow metering
Electric Invisible Ink 267
Print your designs in deep blue with electrolysis
Hints and Tips 273
Suggested Further Reading 283
Index 289
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