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Inventors and Amateur Engineers Sourcebook Inspiration for Everyone Who Likes to Tinker in Their Home Workshop!

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ISBN-10: 1482636468

ISBN-13: 9781482636468

Edition: N/A

Authors: Julian Edgar

List price: $33.00
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The book is for everyone who likes to tinker in their home workshop! In Section 1: Ideas and Approaches, the author looks at how you can develop new projects and inventions. How to think laterally, how to get advice, and when you should stop theorising and start testing! In Section 2: Projects you can build. there is everything from a solar-heated cat or dog kennel - to a jet-powered scooter! From a simple and very cheap seismograph that's sensitive enough to detect people walking up to your front door, to how you can build speakers into the walls and floor of your house. If you'd like to make an electric bike, you can see in detail how such a bike was achieved at home. There's also…    
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Book details

List price: $33.00
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Publication date: 3/26/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 172
Size: 8.50" wide x 11.00" long x 0.41" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

Julian Edgar started his working life freelancing for photography magazines. He then worked as a secondary school teacher for eight years, teaching humanities, before leaving teaching and becoming a full-time automotive writer. He edited a national Australian automotive print magazine before becoming editor of AutoSpeed, an online car magazine. Along the way he wrote extensively for Silicon Chip, an electronics hobbyist magazine, while contributing articles to publications in Australia, the UK and the US.He has been aerodynamically modifying his own cars for nearly 25 years. He was the first automotive journalist to extensively wool tuft cars and write about the results (starting in 1989),…