Build Your Own Chain Reaction Machines

Name: Build Your Own Chain Reaction Machines
Brand: Allen & Unwin
SKU: 9781631595264
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How to Make Crazy Contraptions Using Everyday Stuff--Creative Kid-Powered Projects!

By Mr. Paul Long

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In Build Your Own Chain Reaction Machines, young readers are guided through the fascinating process of creating their own astonishing chain reaction devices using everyday household items. The book combines imaginative projects with educational elements to encourage creativity and problem-solving, offering detailed yet fun insights into physics and engineering concepts. It's an engaging way for kids to explore science through hands-on activities.
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This guide offers young inventors the chance to dive into the world of creative engineering with fun and engaging projects. You might enjoy this book if you love building complex, imaginative machines and discovering the fascinating principles behind chain reactions in a hands-on and accessible way.

Create twelve zany and awesome mechanical contraptions using stuff from around the house.

Description

With Build Your Own Chain Reaction Machines, you'll create twelve zany and awesome mechanical contraptions using stuff from around the house.

Build Your Own Chain Reaction Machines is inspired by the amazing artwork of renowned cartoonist, engineer, and inventor Rube Goldberg, whose wacky, imagined machines accomplished tasks by taking the most complicated route possible. This book invites kids to this wonderful world of creating crazy contraptions.

In this entertaining and instructive book, mechanical engineer and educator Paul Long gives step-by-step instructions for making low-tech devices using everyday objects in inspired and ingenious ways. Create machines that fold your shirts, dispense candy, make music, and more.

Each of the twelve projects demonstrates how to build the machines' various elements and explains how they work together to make a mind-boggling mechanism that delivers hours of fun and fascination. Also included are interesting sidebars on the science behind each gadget, plus tips and tricks for success.

Build Your Own Chain Reaction Machines gives you the know-how to start your own, fantastic chain reactions.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781631595264

Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 18 October 2018

Country: United States

Imprint: Quarry Books

Illustration: 250 color photos & 50 color illustrations

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Width: 216.0mm

Height: 254.0mm

Weight: 300g

Pages: 160

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Children's Books Children’s & Teenage Non-Fiction Children’s, Teenage and Educational Mr. Paul Long

About the Author

Paul Long is a mechanical engineer and educator. He teaches an inventions course for kids and spends his spare time tinkering with cardboard and sewing the perfect backpack. He strives to inspire people to create things for themselves by using random objects to build interactive and kinetic sculptures. Hes fascinated with all things moving (especially gears and the wings of birds), and gets a kick out of combining natural elements with mechanical and man-made items. He lives in San Francisco.