How to photograph the planets, take the pulse of a hummingbird,
smash an atom, construct a robot... This and much more in the first
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American BOOK OF PROJECTS FOR
THE AMATEUR SCIENTIST
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crop of algai! on your window shelf, construct and
launch research rockets, contribute to the growing
body of archaeological knowledge and perforin
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"Miracle drugs" to rocketry
587 pages of experiments In
every major area of science
Interested in outer space? Learn how to track an
earth satellite with the help of a piano.
Mathematical machines? Make a puzzle-solving
machine that cries when it's in trouble.
Fix up a cloud chamber from a two ounce whiskey
glass and embark on the hobby of detecting cosmic
rays. Observe how a bacterium reacts to a wonder
drug. Make the flow of air
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lustrated with 256 drawings
and photographs to help you.
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Make a proton wobble . . . study a butterfly
Iearn how to make a proton wobble and therein'
identify its atom.
Capture the speeding fragment from a star that
exploded a million years ago and examine its na
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which require almost no equipment or experience . . .
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PARTIAL CONTENTS
ASTRONOMY. How to construct a
tele-scope more powerful than Ga
lileo's ... A transistorized drive
for telescopes . . . How to make
clear photograph of the planets
. . . An astrophysical laboratory
in your bark van! ... A universal
Minili.il made from a globe of the
earth . . . 3-D photographs of the
moon . . . and more.
ARCHAEOLOGY. DoV and don'ts for
I he amateur . . . The excavation at
Wapanucket No. d: how a group
of amateurs made a real contribu
tion to science . . .
BIOLOGY. Microscopic gardening
. . . How to tranqtiilie a rat . . .
Measuring the metabolism of ani
mals . . . ( Jnnmatography . . .
How to analyze subtle chemical
mixture . . . and more . . .
NATURAL SCIENCES. Nature's "un
important" puzzle . . . How to at
tract and study hummingbirds . . .
Raising hutlerflies as experi
mental animals . . . Bird-banding
for the amateur . . . How to live
with reptiles and amphibians . . .
EARTH SCIENCES. How to read
rocks . . . Amateur Seismology
. . . Tracking satellites . . . How
to men u re the earth's eletlric
charge ... An electronic, weather
forecaster . . . Detecting the
earth's rotation . . . and more.
NUCLEAR PHYSICS. Exploring the
atom at home . . . i.loud cham
ber for detecting nuclear event
... A simple magnetic-resonance
speedometer ... A homemade
atom smasher . . . The Millikan
Oil Drop experiment . . . and more.
MATHEMATICAL MACHINES. A puz
zle -solving machine that signals
when in trouble ... A ticktacktoe
machine whose design resembles
that of all electric calculating de
vices . . . Some computer theory
. . . How to design a "pircuit" or
puzzle circuit ... An electronic
mouse that learns from experi
ence . . . and more.
AERODYNAMICS. The charms of
low-speed aerodynamics ... A
low-speed wind tunnel ... A
smoke tunnel that can he made
for $3 if you have a vacuum
cleaner and a camera . . . What
you can learn by "flying" model
airplanes in water . . . Detailed
instructions for building and
launching two research rockets . . .
OPTICS, HEAT, ELECTRONICS. Ama
teur microscopy . . . Homemade
electrostatic generators , . . From
inexpensive materials you can con
struct an X-ray machine that will
make pictures through an inch of
wood . . . The "Hilsch" vortex tube
. . . An experiment with the op
tical effect that imparts color to
soap bubbles . . . How to use the
piezoelectric effect to make an
electric clock keep accurate time
. . . Some after-dinner experi
ment? . . .
A CLOSING CHALLENGE. The ama
teur is invited to design experi
ments of his own and to con
sider, as a starter, the unsolved
riddle of the skipping stones . . .
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