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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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Introduction; part 1, on the reflexion and refraction of light is divided into catoptrics (reflexion by specula or mirrors) and ...
#46141 Book / Science
Essays on a large number of scientific topics aimed at the lay reader. Subjects covered include geology, meteorology, chemistry and ...
#39194 Book / Science
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 ...
#42677 Book / Science
Contains Life of Scott; Poor Joe; The Kidnapped Boy; The Conquest of Mexico; The Deserters; A Present to Apprentices; Life ...
#42678 Book / Science
Tracts in this volume (8) are The Life of William Hutton; Spectral Illusions (accounts for visions and ghosts as due ...
#42679 Book / Science
Tracts in Volume 9 entitled Life of Henry IV, King of France; A Story of the Factories, by Camilla Toulmin; ...
#42680 Book / Science
Sections on chemistry (including photography pp.45-8); metallurgy; organic chemistry; static electricity; theories of electricity; electrical machines; electrical attraction and repulsion; ...
#20918 Book / Science
Translation from the German of Kolumbus-Eier, based on a larger German collection with the same title, first issued by the ...
#42488 Book / Science
More advanced than the Boys' Playbooks aimed at young readers. Sections on light (including the kaleidoscope, microscopes, telescopes, the camera ...
#29803 Book / Science
Chapters on water power; coal, gas and petroleum; steam; gas, petrol and oil engines; generation and transmission of electricity; electric ...
#11172 Book / Science
Book written in reaction to change in school curriculum requiring individual experimental work by students. Experiments proposed are in mensuration; ...
#45342 Book / Science
Title continues 'all the popular tricks and changes of the cards &c. &c. to which is added, a complete system ...
#39209 Book / Science
Lavater's theory of physiognomy, 'translated from the German of John Caspar Lavater by Thomas Holcroft,' and illustrated by pages of ...
#11108 Book / Science
Title continues: 'With a series of easy, entertaining, and interesting mechanical, magnetical, and magical experiments; including the most celebrated card ...
#20911 Book / Science
Intended for the general reader, chapters cover money-making (the mint); paper-making; match-making; building a piano; candles and soap; mineral-water; chinaware ...
#45323 Book / Science
Intends to give the principles of a wide variety of techniques and inventions. Chapters on the steam-engine; the conversion of ...
#45322 Book / Science
Short, anecdotal articles on many inventions, including the first photographers (p.30); panoramas (p. 211); the thaumatrope (p. 243); the labours ...
#42685 Book / Science
Semi-fictionalised account for children of the development of the airship; the steam engine; electricity; the crew propeller and the submarine; ...
#16134 Book / Science