The Hot Air Balloon Book: Build and Launch Kongming Lanterns, Solar Tetroons, and More - Softcover

Buch 4 von 6: Science in Motion

Catterall, Clive

 
9781613740965: The Hot Air Balloon Book: Build and Launch Kongming Lanterns, Solar Tetroons, and More
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1613740964 ISBN 13: 9781613740965
Verlag: Chicago Review Press, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

More than a century before the Wright brothers’ first flight, humans were taking to the skies in hot air balloons. Today, with basic craft skills, you can build and safely launch your own balloons using inexpensive, readily available materials. Author and inventor Clive Catterall provides illustrated, step-by-step instructions for eight different homemade models, as well as the science and history behind them. Some, like the Solar Tetroon or the Trash Bag Sausage, are made from plastic bags and tape. Others, like the Khom Loi or the Kongming Lantern, are built using tissue paper and wire.

            The Hot Air Balloon Book also shows readers ways to heat the interior air that lifts these balloons, from tea candles to hair dryers, kitchen toasters to the sun’s warming rays. Always keeping safety in mind, the author includes detailed guidelines on when and where open flames are appropriate and the proper weather conditions to launch these lighter-than-air craft.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Clive Catterall is an inventor, a product engineer, a technical writer, and an elementary school teacher.

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Verlag
Chicago Review Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2013
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1613740964
ISBN 13 
9781613740965
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Anzahl der Seiten
227
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