Adventures from the Technology Underground技术王国探险几
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作者： William Gurstelle 著
出 版 社： 武汉大学出版社
出版时间： 2007-1-1字数：版次： 1页数： 223印刷时间：开本： 16开印次： 1纸张：I S B N ： 9780307351258包装： 平装编辑推荐
作者简介：
WILLIAM GURSTELLL,is the author of Backyard Ballistics,Buliding Bots,The Art of the Catapult,and the upcoming Whoosh Boom Splat.He lives in Minneapolis,Minnesota.
内容简介
What is the technology underground? According to engineer and technology consultant Gurstelle, it's a community of like-minded amateurs--inventors, mostly, although some of them might more accurately be characterized as daredevils. Men and women who have devoted their lives to the things that conventional science has dismissed as unworkable, impractical, or just plain pointless. Flying cars, for example, or newfangled catapults, air guns, and flamethrowers. Or fighting robots and, of course, LDRS (large and dangerous rocket ships). The author explores not only the people who devise these wondrous new inventions but also the technological wizardry behind them: every chapter features illustrations and technical explanations of the devices discussed within. The writing is a bit scattershot, alternating frequently between clunky ("it is reasonable to outline, at the outset of a conceptualization or a project, the rules of conformance") and the outright funny: after describing an early flying-car design, the author deadpans, "It never got off the ground." But the book's target audience won't be bothered by the prose. They will be looking for adventure, excitement, and really wild stuff. They won't be disappointed.
目录
Preface
Introduction
1High-Power Rockets
2The Technology of Burning Man
3Tesla Coils
4High-Voltage Discharge Machines
5Hurling Machines,
6Air Guns
7Flamethrowers
8Electrostatic Machines
9Rail and Coil Guns
10Robots
11Notes from the Technology Underground,Concluded
Notes
Further Reading
Acknowledgments
Index