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A history of physics for the lay reader. Includes description of the magic lantern (pp. 40-41). There is a timeline ...
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Sections cover methods of producing power; the machine industries; transportation and communication; military techniques; the construction and equipment of urban ...
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Introduction; part 1, on the reflexion and refraction of light is divided into catoptrics (reflexion by specula or mirrors) and ...
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Essays on a large number of scientific topics aimed at the lay reader. Subjects covered include geology, meteorology, chemistry and ...
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Second volume of a two-volume set. Essays on a variety of scientific topics aimed at the lay reader. Subjects cover ...
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Contains articles on Eminent Astronomers; Hints to Workmen; The Guerilla, a Story of the Peninsular War; Speculative Manias; Four Months ...
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Contains Life of Scott; Poor Joe; The Kidnapped Boy; The Conquest of Mexico; The Deserters; A Present to Apprentices; Life ...
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Tracts in this volume (8) are The Life of William Hutton; Spectral Illusions (accounts for visions and ghosts as due ...
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Tracts in Volume 9 entitled Life of Henry IV, King of France; A Story of the Factories, by Camilla Toulmin; ...
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Sections on chemistry (including photography pp.45-8); metallurgy; organic chemistry; static electricity; theories of electricity; electrical machines; electrical attraction and repulsion; ...
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Translation from the German of Kolumbus-Eier, based on a larger German collection with the same title, first issued by the ...
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Sections on light shows (including chinese shadow play, decoupage, silhouettes, kaleidoscope, anamorphosis, spectral figures, optical illusions, Newton's disc, phenakistiscope, zootrope,); ...
#46196 Book / Science
More advanced than the Boys' Playbooks aimed at young readers. Sections on light (including the kaleidoscope, microscopes, telescopes, the camera ...
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Chapters on water power; coal, gas and petroleum; steam; gas, petrol and oil engines; generation and transmission of electricity; electric ...
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A children's yearbook, with stories, information about the natural world, sport, how things work, and things to make. Includes information ...
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'Prepared under the direction of International Edison Birthday Celebration Committee of the Thams Alva Edison Foundation.' Introduction by Charles Edison. ...
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Article from La Nature, first published in France in 1873, on La Fluoroscope D'Edison (Edison's Fluoroscope) which was developed from ...
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Book written in reaction to change in school curriculum requiring individual experimental work by students. Experiments proposed are in mensuration; ...
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Title continues 'all the popular tricks and changes of the cards &c. &c. to which is added, a complete system ...
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