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Technical product development: Genius Toy Taiwan Co., Ltd., Taichung, Taiwan, R.O.C. and Thames & Kosmos
Experiments and text: Camille Duhamel
Text and Editing: Ted McGuire
Additional design and illustrations: Dan Freitas
Photos: askaja (all paper clips); Jamie Duplass (all tape strips); picsfive (all push pins); p. 3 and p. 8 (gyroscope sketch) istockphoto.
com/ilbusca; p. 3 and p. 11 (top) istockphoto.com/Oleg Shelomentsev; p. 3 and p. 27 (flywheel) istockphoto.com/compuinfoto; p. 4
(gyroscope) istockphoto.com/sNorrisPhoto; p. 6 (top) istockphoto.com/Vasiliki Varvaki; p. 8 (circuit board) Courtesy of Intel Free
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(newton’s cradle) istockphoto.com/Ali Ender Birer; p. 21 (billiards) istockphoto.com/maurusone; p. 26 (Galileo) Public domain image;
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