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toys
short but sweet LINK TO KITES click here to find out about harmonographs pendulum escapement simple drawing instruments balloon buggy homemade hovercraft bubble blower robot arm dynamic balance static electricity handwriting robots printer port robot walking machine toy electric dodgem remote controlled cars elastic-powered car obstacle climber cable car toy submarines + other boats rotodynes rubber-band helicopter cyclic steering electric aeroplanes water rocket rocket flicking cardboard rings nipkov disc optical illusion radio controlled steam traction engine hot air balloons crystal radio magnetometer electric motor spinner magnetic padlock vortex gun made from plastic bucket magnetic pendulum

electric dice spinner flips & flops archimedean screw water pump candle holder stirling engine

stories
LINK TO 'THE CROCK OF GOLD' by JAMES STEPHENS (LITRIX.COM) LINK TO 'THE PASSING OF BLACK EAGLE' by O.HENRY Nicola Tesla Archy and Mehitabel physics more physics LINK TO THE CROSSWIRE FILES last of the mohicans the coming of hiawatha mister toad joel chandler harris tristram shandy the road to en-dor the caravaners qships south (ernest shackleton) biggles winged victory inside a twister marshal ney the advance from mons battle of waterloo the friendship of monsieur jeynois by william hope hodgson death to the french by c.s. forester the good soldier svejk the bird of dawning the shortest short story in the world. To read it you have to print it, then cut out the semicircles and fold them into cones. the greatcoat by nikolai gogol the purple cloud by MP Shiel the master and margarita by mikhail bulgakov the fatal eggs war with the newts by karel capek

miscellaneous

link to clockfaces link to chessboards link to paper cutouts WS Williamson how to write mandlebrot programs lines graphic, print on paper and as a transparency to do moire fringe cutouts LINK TO MUSIC WEB SITE click here for online harmonograph prog I wrote. Click to rotate in 3d. click here for online handwriting prog I wrote. Click to write, click again to rotate in 3d. click here for online vector bisector prog I wrote. Click to bisect a vector. Idea is fundamentally useful for any problem involving co-ordinate to vector conversion. click here for another handwriting prog I wrote. Click to start drawing, click again to rotate. click here for another similar to above. Click to start drawing, click again to rotate. As above, except every other click you get a new line Automatic isometric construction lines. Link to Pythagoras proof another Pythagoras proof quadratic equation visualiser link to flash tutorial for above magic numbers click here for online garbage I wrote click here to download Trachtenberg maths program I wrote LINK TO TRACHTENBERG MATHS WEB SITE MY EMAIL ADDRESS davidvwilliamson@hotmail.com