TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- SIMPLE BUT SUBTLE… SIMPLE BUT NOT ALWAYS EASY TO EXPLAIN -- 1. Blunderspuds and Carrot Cannons-Artillery and Boyle's Law -- 2. Mr. Bernoulli's Pop-Up Piston-More Bernoulli Weirdness -- 3. The Rapid-Fire Vacuum Bazooka-Fire Projectiles or Clean the Floor -- 4. Single-Blade Propellers-Venetian Gondolas -- 5. Soda Mint Fountains-Thirst for Knowledge and Water Quenched at Once -- 6. The Armor-Plated Sandcastle-Gas and Sand Combine -- 7. The Riddle of the Sands-Weird but Beautiful Patterns Appear, All of Their Own Accord -- 8. Tricks of Sideways Light-Magic Mondrians and Invisible Watches -- 9. Sunbeam Exploders-Ray Guns Aren't Sci-Fi Any More -- 10. The Dead-or-Alive Ball-To Bounce or Not to Bounce, That Is the Question -- 11. Cowboy Coffee-Yee Haw! -- 12. Electric Glue-The Modern Glue -- 13. Electric Gunpowder-Explosive Electricity! -- 14. An Eiffel Brick Tower-Eat Your Heart Out, Monsieur Eiffel! -- 15. Dominoids-Four-Foot Brobdingnagian Monster Dominoes Will Hit the Floor at the End of a Row of Standard Dominoes -- 16. Colloons-Civil and Aeronautical Engineering Combined: Neither Column nor Balloon -- 17. Motor Brushes-The Science of Vibration-Driven Vehicles Is Applied to a Humble Household Brush -- 18. A Smooth-Wheel Paddle Steamer-Invisible (well, almost) Marine Propulsion -- 19. A String Amplifier-The Powerful Science of Loops of String -- 20. The Punkah Pendulum-Air-Conditioning and Timekeeping Combined -- 21. The Maharaja's Sunshade-Air in Motion Provides Tent and Air- Conditioning Rolled into One -- SURPRISINGLY SUBTLE… SURPRISES GALORE IN THIS MAVERICK COLLECTION -- 1. An Electric Sundial-Tired of Running to Your Cave Entrance to Get the Time? -- 2. The Kleenex Clock-Time from Tissue Paper -- 3. The Torsion Time Pencil-Peeling off Atomic Layers as Time Goes by.

4. The Swell-Gel Flowstopper-Stop Water Going up Your Gas Lines -- 5. The Vortex Pump-Whirling Water Magic -- 6. Waxaulics-Hydraulics for Candles -- 7. Telestrings-Remote- Controlled Art -- 8. Squirting String-Getting String to Flow through Pipes -- 9. Spider Technology-The Silken Secrets of Spiderman -- SIMPLE SECRETS OF THE UNIVERSE… FUNDAMENTALS OF THE PHYSICAL WORLD UNCOVERED IN ELEGANTLY SIMPLE DEMONSTRATIONS -- 1. The Molecule Meter-I Speak Your Molecular Weight! -- 2. Talking Sparks-Send Messages at 186 Million Miles per Hour: See How Radio Pioneer Marconi First Sent Radio a Thousand Miles -- 3. Light and Lens Pipes-The Strong Focusing Principle Used in the Microscopes of Fundamental Particle Physics -- 4. Fire from Water-The Power of Concentration -- 5. The Heliracket-Waves, Molecules, and Music -- 6. The Helitower-The Momentum Principle of Rockets and Helicopters -- CLOXOTICA-EXOTIC CLOCKS AND OSCILLATORS: A CORNUCOPIA OF UNUSUAL CLOCKS -- 1. The Paperclip Clock-A Major Leap Forward in Horological Science, the Acme of Simplicity -- 2. The Micropendulum-The Prestipendulous Tick-Tock Clock -- 3. The String Thing-Ballet Dancing for Pendulums -- 4. Eddy the Coniclock-A Spinning Disk Powers a Conical Pendulum -- 5. The Humming Clock-Recycle Unwanted Mains Hum to Run Your Clock -- 6. An Hourglass Wallah-The Sands of Time Updated -- 7. The Knife-through-Butter Clock-Melting Time -- 8. Creepy Clocks and Time Pencils-The Slow Flow of Solids -- 9. A Polymerizing Clock-Telling Time with Glue and Chemistry -- 10. Delay-Line Oscillators-Pass-the-Parcel Oscillators -- 11. The Fan Flap Flip-Flop Clock-A Huffing and Puffing Clock -- 12. The Faucet Oscillator-Measuring Time with Spurts of Water -- 13. The Slugulator-Not an Oscillator for the Impatient! -- 14. The Sloshulator-Time from Waves -- GEEKONICS-SIMPLER THAN YOU MIGHT EXPECT, AND NOT JUST FOR GEEKS.

1. The Telebubblegraph-Sending Bubbly Messages the Electrolytic Way -- 2. The Touchy-Feely Sensor-Putting a Number to Hotfeelingness and Coldfeelingness -- 3. Fire Wire-Finding Fire along a Wire -- 4. Electric Bubble Memory-Minute Electric Cells Keep Your 1s and 0s Safe -- 5. Red-Hot Memory-Binary Memory: 0s Are Cold and 1s Are (ouch!) Hot -- 6. Deflation Detection-Ultrasonic Tire Monitoring -- MAD, BAD, AND DANGEROUS-PROJECTS THAT HAVE HAZARDS, ALTHOUGH THEY CAN BE MINIMIZED -- 1. Deep Impact-Armor-Piercing Carrots: High-Speed Vegetables -- 2. The Flying Soda Bottle-A Spectacular Piece of Practical Science Using the Rapid Release of Energy from Compressed Gas -- 3. Oxygen Fireworks-The Greener, Safer Ground Fireworks System -- GREAT STUFF-BIGGER PROJECTS THAT NEED SPACE AND LARGER PARTS -- 1. The Helevator-The Elevator of Oz: Is It a Helicopter or an Elevator? -- 2. An Airbag Oscillator-Your Body Forms Part of This Ride-On Brobdingnagian Oscillator -- 3. A Bubble-Tube Oscillator-Trains of Bubbles Chase Each Other Upward -- 4. The Preposterously Big Party Blowout-The Holiday Party Favorite Scaled up to Span Football Fields -- 5. Pink-Noise Pipes-Make Music from Noise! -- 6. Turbo Panjandrums-The Auto-Unicycle -- 7. The Impossible Turbine-The Backward-Forward-Always-Clockwise Turbine -- 8. A Rocket Railroad-This Rocket Pumps Propellant from the Track as It Goes Along -- 9. The Hovertrain-A Railroad without Rails -- 10. A Jet-Wash Rocket-The Superclean Rocket -- 11. The Single-Helix Pump-You Don't Need a Double Helix to Squirt Water at Surprising Pressure -- 12. Leonardo's Bridge-No Nails or Screws or String: It's Just a Subtle Stack of Sticks -- 13. Your Personal Hovercraft-You Have a Personal Computer, Why Not Ride Around on Your Personal Hovercraft? -- TIPS AND TRICKS -- OLD-FASHIONED UNITS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G.

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