Gurstelle, William

Presents a number of projects based on inventions of the Industrial Revolution.

Build potato canons, paper match rockets, Cincinnati fire kites, tennis ball mortars and more dynamite devices.

Uses diagrams, photographs, and text to provide step-by-step instructions for making ballistic devices, including a catapult, a tennis ball mortar, and an electromagnetic pipe gun.

Features illustrations and technical explanations of a variety of homemade rockets, catapults, robots, and other machines by amateur inventors.

Presents a guide to manufacturing homemade ballistic devices, including thirteen projects with simple instructions, diagrams, and illustrations, from a match-powered rocket to a table top catapult.

A guide to building and designing warrior robots like the ones featured on popular television shows that provides step-by-step instructions for each step of the process.

Presents detailed illustrated instructions for building seven historic catapults that rely on using the basic skill of math and physics and includes a history of siege.