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This great little book is a concise all-purpose reference featuring hundreds of tables, maps, formulas, constants & conversions AND it still fits in your shirt pocket! Goes where you go!.
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It's a tough job separating truth from urban legend, but the MythBusters are here to serve. For example, is it true that if you step in quicksand , you'll be sucked down to your death? Only two men would be inventive - and adventurous - enough to try to find out: Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, the MythBusters Each week, hosts Savage and Hyneman, both special effects experts, use modern science to put another three urban legends to the test on their popular TV show. In this book, you'll learn how they either "busted" or confirmed fifteen myths on their show, often with spectacular results. Here are just some of the urban legends in this book:

• Did a Ming Dynasty astronaut launch himself into space with a rocket?
• Can a swallowed octopus egg grow to full size inside a person's stomach?
• Is the daddy longlegs the world's most venomous spider?
• Will a sinking ship suck you down?
• How many balloons are needed to lift a small child off the ground?
• Does a duck's quack echo?

Mythbusters: Don't Try This at Home! gets to the bottom of these urban legends and more, and it lets you do your own mythbusting with fun experiments you can do safely at home..
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Leave no urban myth untested

Could you kill someone by dropping a penny from a skyscraper? Can an unsuspecting scuba diver be sucked out of the water by a firefighting helicopter and get spit out in the middle of a forest fire? Can you save yourself in a plummeting elevator by jumping just before it hits bottom?

Special effects experts Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage, hosts of the Discovery Channel's top-rated MythBusters, use modern-day extreme science to show you what's real and what's fiction. With photographs, illustrations, blueprints, and exclusive interviews to document the mythbusting process, MythBusters: The Explosive Truth Behind 30 of the Most Perplexing Urban Legends of All Time will examine dozens of urban legends, from exploding toilets to being buried alive -- these guys have tested them all. Eye-opening, jaw-dropping, and even laugh-inducing, this book will delight armchair scientists, curious readers, and fans of the show alike. Keith and Kent Zimmerman are the New York Times bestselling coauthors of Hell's Angel and The Best Damn Sports Book, Period, among others..
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Classic telling of the timeless story of Robin Hood and his merry Men including, Little John, Will Scarlet, Friar Tuck and Maid Marion. Robin heads his army of outlaws in a fight againest the unjust Prince John..
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Learn from your mistakes Thomas Alva Edison was the man that found over a thousand ways `not to make a light bulb before he found one that worked. He was never afraid to make mistakes in fact he expected them. Yet Edison is considered one of the most prolific inventors in history, holding 1,093 U.S. patents. Edison inventions included the phonograph, movies, typewriters, the electric light bulb and much much more. This biography was written by two of Edisons associates Frank Lewis Dyer General Counsel For The Edison Laboratory And Allied Interests And Thomas Commerford Martin former-President Of The American Institute Of Electrical Engineers..
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What is electricity? How is it generated? more over who discovered it? We all know the story of Benjamin Franklin and his kite, but he wasn't the only one. There were many discoveries starting with the early discovery of friction - or static electricity Later chemistry was used (as it still is in batteries) and then there was electromagnetism.

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James Watt (19 January 1736 â€" 19 August 1819) was a Scottish inventor and engineer whose improvements to the steam engine were fundamental to the changes wrought by the Industrial Revolution.

Written by Andrew Carnegie Millionaire Industrialist and inspiration for Napoleon Hill's book "Think and Grow Rich".
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Benjamin Franklin?s is the classic rags to riches story running away from home as a young many with only three penny?s to his name Ben built one of the largest publishing empires of his day. He also was an inventor, the man that discovered electricity, the man who invented daylight savings and helped to write the declaration of independence as well as the American Constitution. .
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Tom Swift, in his first adventure, has purchased a motorcycle and immediately sets to using his inventive genius to modify it. Anxious to test out all of his enhancements, Tom volunteers to transport his father's revolutionary turbine design plans across the country roads to Albany. Unaware of the evil corporate investors that want to steal the invention for themselves, Tom falls into their trap and finds himself up against the greatest peril of his life, so far. It will be up to Tom to not only rescue the blueprints and turbine prototype, but also bring a hired gang of thugs to justice.

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