(Mobile ebook) The Practical Guide to Man-Powered Weapons and Ammunition: Experiments with Catapults, Musketballs, Stonebows, Blowpipes, Big Airguns, and Bulletbows
☆ Richard Middleton ☆
| #1171537 in Books | 2007-10-17 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x6.10 x6.00l,.55 | File Name: 1602391475 | 224 pages
||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| On target...|By Autolycus|Very well-written - if the author does descend deep into the depths of basic physics at times. This is balanced by a light-hearted writing style which is simultaneously entertaining and educational. Richard Middleton is obviously one of those people who you wished you'd had as a teacher at school - many, many years ago...! This is one of those b|About the Author|Richard Middleton is Reader in American History at The Queen's University, Belfast. He is the author ofThe Bells of Victory: The Pitt-Newcastle Ministry and the Conduct of the Seven Years' War: 1757-1762(1985).
David slew Goliath with his slingshot: for millennia that was the norm, as men used a variety of non-explosive weapons to fire small stones and carefully rounded bullets of clay, glass, and even steel and lead. This unusual study explores in practical detail the many ways, old and new, in which man shot projectiles without recourse to gunpowder. They include the bow and arrow, a favorite for the last 10,000 years; pump-up air guns; blowpipes; catapults; and homemad... [PDF.gw65] The Practical Guide to Man-Powered Weapons and Ammunition: Experiments with Catapults, Musketballs, Stonebows, Blowpipes, Big Airguns, and Bulletbows Rating: 3.90 (674 Votes)
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