Book explains to its audience of boys [sic] the properties of matter; centrifugal force; astronomy; gravity; adhesion and cohesion; capillary attraction; crystallisation; chemistry; aerostation; the halogens; photography (including the carbon printing, diazotype, zinco, half-tone and tri-colour processes and micro-photography; carbon and boron; frictional electricity; voltaic electricity; magnetism and electro-magnetism, telegraphy (including the telephone, phonograph and microphone); magneto-electricity; dia-magnetism; light, optics, and optical instruments (including telescope and kaleidoscope); refraction of light; refracting optical instruments (including magic lantern, zoetrope, stereoscope); light; radioactivity; heat; steam; water turbines. 'Illustrated with five hundred and ninety-three engravings,' mainly small diagrams and drawings.
Item number | 45301 |
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Category | Book |
Type | Science |
Dimensions | length 220mm; breadth 145mm; thickness 40mm |
Language | English |
Country of origin | UK |
Related people | John Henry Pepper (author) |
John Mastin (author) |
Part of the Bill Douglas and Peter Jewell Collection