Build your own chain reaction machines : how to make crazy contraptions using everyday stuff : creative kid-powered projects!

Build your own chain reaction machines How to make crazy contraptions using everyday stuff : creative kid-powered projects!

Paul Long

Book - 2018

"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 flip a light switch, squeeze toothpaste, dispense candy, make music, and more. Each of the thirteen projects demonstrates how to build the machine's various elements, and explains how they work together t...o 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.

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Subjects
Goldberg, Rube, > 1883-1970 > Juvenile literature.
Machine design > Amateurs' manuals > Juvenile literature.
Implements, utensils, etc. > Design and construction > Amateurs' manuals > Juvenile literature.
Handbooks and manuals.
Instructional and educational works.
Genres
Handbooks and manuals
Instructional and educational works
Published
Beverly, MA : Quarry Books, an imprint of The Quarto Group 2018.
Language
English
Main Author
Paul Long (author)
Item Description
"Creative kid-powered projects."
A "Quarto Knows" title.
Physical Description
159 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (page 157).
ISBN
9781631595264
  • Essential tools, techniques, and mechanisms
  • Machines for your room
  • Machines for around the house
  • Machines for fun and nonsense
  • Machines for food.
Review by Booklist Review

While chain reaction machines are not useful, they are definitely fun to build and watch. A brief introduction describes how these complicated devices perform mundane jobs by linking a series of simple tasks (e.g., deflating balloons, releasing marbles, and springing mousetraps) to produce a domino effect. It also notes that these outlandish contraptions are sometimes called Rube Goldberg machines, after the inventor and cartoonist whose depictions made them popular. Following a chapter on basic tools and techniques (e.g., making washers, gears, and perfect circles), the book dives into building 13 chain reaction machines, from light switcher and plant waterer to marble launcher and cookie dunker. Each profile comprises materials needed (all easily accessible from home-repair stores) and detailed, step-by-step directions, which are also complemented by high-quality color photographs. In addition, the explanations include sidebars with troubleshooting tips and Engineering Know-How, which relates the science used, such as force, gravity, resistance, and counterweight, to form the chain reaction. The author leaves plenty of room for experimentation as well in this ideal resource for maker spaces.--Angela Leeper Copyright 2018 Booklist

From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.

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