Pumpkins and trebuchets

Okay, all of you undergraduate and graduate students--have some fun this Halloween and construct a pumpkin tossing trebuchet. Exercise your Medieval sense of competition. Redefine "hurling". Plenty of time to construct a catapult and harvest a few pumpkins. Better than bobbing for apples and Homeland Security approved.


Medieval Siege

Reconstructing Medieval Artillery

The Algorithmic Beauty of the Trebuchet

The Grey Company Trebuchet Page

Candles at Halloween

Candles at Halloween

"The Chemical History of a Candle"

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Michael Faraday

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[Thanks to stringer Tim]