Marvels of heat, light and sound: being a popular account of heat in its various manifestations, the thermometer, specific and latent heat, the eye and optical illusions, the telescope and microscope, the ear and hearing ...

Explanation for the general reader of the scientific principles of heat, light and sound, with demonstrations. Topics covered are: heat; light (including reflection and refraction); vision (including vision and optical illusions, the eye, chromatic aberration, spinning tops); optical illusions (including occular estimation, zollner's designs, the thaumatrope, phenakistoscope, zootrope, praxinoscope, the dazzling top); optical illusions cont. (including the talking head, ghost illusions); optical apparatus (including the eye, the streoscope, spectrum analysis, the spectroscope, the telescope and microscope, photography, dissolving views, luminous paint); spectral illusions (including a spectre, ghosts); acoustics (including the harmonograph); acoustics cont (including the topophone, the megaphone, the autophone, the audiphone, the telephone, the phonograph, the microphone). 'With many illustrations.'

Publisher: Ward, Lock, & Co.

Part of the Bill Douglas and Peter Jewell Collection