Build Your Own Guillotine (Make a Model that Actually Works)

Gillon, Edmund V. Jr.

ISBN 10: 0399506209 / ISBN 13: 9780399506208

Editore: Perigee Books [Putnam Publishing Group], New York, 1981

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Stiff card-stock, stapled wraps - wraps are a bit age/hand soiled. The bindings are tight and square. Text is clean; light, even age-toning. Moderate shelf handling wear.; 9.5 by 10.5 inches; Unused, complete. A novelty entry in Perigee s "The Way Things Work" series: a cut-and-assemble paper model book that uses the infamous French guillotine to demonstrate basic mechanics and paper engineering. Gillon supplies die-line parts, assembly diagrams, and brief historical/context notes; the result is a functioning tabletop paper model (for demonstration only). Subjects: Guillotine mechanics & historical context; Paper model with working action; Pop-science & making; Paper engineering/modelmaking; Novelty/curiosa.

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• Titolo: Build Your Own Guillotine (Make a Model that Actually Works)
• Editore: Perigee Books [Putnam Publishing Group], New York
• Data di pubblicazione: 1981
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0399506209
• ISBN 13: 9780399506208
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Condizione: Near Fine
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket, As Issued
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • LITERATURE [Many Sub-Catagories]
  • CRAFTS; HOBBIES; DIY

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Series; Way things work. Physical description; 43 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 32 cm. Notes; "A Perigee book." Subjects; Architectural models.