* _Gonzo Gizmos_ book

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Gonzo Gizmos: Projects & Devices to Channel Your Inner Geek
by Simon Field

More than 30 compelling projects for tinkerers ranging from casual to
incurable

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Step-by-step instructions to building more than 30 fascinating devices are
included in this book for workbench warriors and grown-up geeks. Detailed
illustrations and diagrams explain how to construct a simple radio with a soldering
iron, a few basic circuits, and three shiny pennies. Instructions are included
for a rotary steam engine that requires a candle, a soda can, a length of
copper tubing, and just 15 minutes. To use optics to roast a hot dog, no
electricity or stove is required, just a flexible plastic mirror, a wooden box, a
little algebra, and a sunny day. Also included are experiments most science
teachers probably never demonstrated, such as magnets that levitate in midair,
metals that melt in hot water, a Van de Graaff generator made from a pair of empty
soda cans, and lasers that transmit radio signals. Every experiment is
followed by an explanation of the applicable physics or chemistry.
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Simon Field is an information systems specialist, ham radio operator, and
tireless tinkerer who collects science experiments for his popular web site,
www.scitoys.com. <

Category: Science
Pages: 228
Book Type: Paper
Size: 7 x 10
ISBN: 1556525206
B&W Photos: 200
Line Drawings: 30
Diagrams: 10

Chicago Review Press

www.scitoys.com

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Hanuman Zhang, Ph.D.[Permanent head Damage] musical mad scientist: "Na, I
don't wanna take over the world, just the sound spectrum." Ars sine scientia
nihil est. Ars imitatur Naturam in sua operatione.

"The most exciting phrase in science...is not 'Eureka!' - I found it! - but
'That's funny...'" - Isaac Asimov

German: _Geräusch_ "noise" ... _rauschen_ "the sound of the wind" ...
_Rausch_ "ecstasy, intoxication"... Japanese Romaji: _uchu_ "universe"...
_uchoten_ "ecstasy," "rapture"..._uchujin_ [space] alien!

"... simple, chaotic, anarchic & menacing.... This is what people of today
have lost & need most - the ability to experience permanent bodily & mental
ecstasy, to be a receiving station for messages howling by on the ether from other
worlds & nonhuman entities, those peculiar short-wave messages which come in
static-free in the secret pleasure center in the brain." - Slava Ranko (Donald
L. Philippi)

"When you're trying to do something you should feel absolutely alone, like a
spark in the blackness of the universe."-Xenakis

"The sky and its stars make music in you." - Dendera, Egypt wall
inscription

"What strange risk of hearing can bring sound to music - a hearing whose
obligation awakens a sensibility so new that it is forever a unique, new-born,
anti-death surprise, created now & now & now. .. a hearing whose moment in
time is always daybreak." - Lucia Dlugoszewski

"For 25 centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It
has failed to understand that the world is not for the beholding. It is for
the hearing. It is not legible, but audible. ... Music is a herald, for change
is inscribed in noise faster than it transforms society. ... Listening to
music is listening to all noise, realizing that its appropriation & control is a
reflection of power, that is essentially political." - Jacques Attali, _Noise:
The Political Economy of Music_

"...Then out to the flaming stars...
From then, eventually unshackle time,
& traverse galaxies..." - Lou Harrison