Stories by C. L. Stong

Experiments in generating the constituents of living matter from inorganic substances

How to make photographs in polymer and build a sensitive pressure gauge

Old refrigerators are salvaged to build a laboratory cooler and a gas liquefier

The flow of blood, weather vanes, telescope mirrors and the conductivity of insulators

Antigens and antibodies are studied by their diffusion patterns in agar

Color photographs of the night sky are made by refrigerating the film

The metabolic rate of small animals is measured in homemade apparatus

Salts react in a gel to make the colorful Liesegang bands

How to blow soap bubbles that last for months or even years

The lore and aerodynamics of making and flying kites

Various kinds of chromatography, especially the thin-layer method

How to construct an argon gas laser with outputs at several wavelengths

Simple ways to calculate the orbits of space vehicles

How to make a wave machine to simulate the building and destruction of beaches

Experiments with various liquids that do not mix

An ultraviolet spectrograph designed by the illustrator of this department

Making an apparatus that will measure the acidity or the alkalinity of solutions

Analyzing how a stone skips and turning sound into heat

How to make electrets, devices that hold electrostatic charge

A plan for an analogue computer that can be built for about $50

A spectrophotometer is built for less than $75

Two methods of microscope lighting that produce color

Little radio transmitters for short-range telemetry

Building a sensitive magnetometer and an accurate solid-state timer