
The Amateur Scientist
About historic and modern machines for the generation of static electricity
About historic and modern machines for the generation of static electricity
About tiny mineral specimens and other matters, including a troublesome puzzle
About utilizing the moon to occult the stars and increase telescope resolution
About cultivating algae from the soil and making steady telescope mountings
About the eye of the snake and, by curious coincidence, a telescope like a gigantic eye
On the collecting of moths and butterflies and some ingenious and attractive sundials
Largely about an artist's earnest attempt to depict the particles of modern physics
About various things, mainly an instrument for the very precise measurement of length
About binoculars that are out of line and a telescope built by a group of schoolboys
About making a microscope, a new idea for a large telescope and other matters
About a hygrometer made from a flower pot, and huge telescopes with compound mirrors
On a well-made refracting telescope and testing airplanes in the bathtub
About snakes, the other side of the moon and unusual telescopes to follow rockets
Two astronomical matters: electronic light meters and "off-axis" reflecting telescopes
About the pleasures of paleontology and how to make a "fish eye" camera
Two optical matters: the making of a "fish eye" camera and the buying of a microscope
Mainly about a theory of color harmony and a new book for the telescope maker
On the nationwide net of weather observers and the ruling of a grating on a cylinder
About sundials and a cyclotron, the latter built by a group of bold high school boys
On the popular diversion of free diving, and a well-built Cassegrainian telescope
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