Stories by C. L. Stong

How a group of amateurs, with professional guidance, unearthed an early Indian village

About experiments that demonstrate the function of the thyroid gland

How to construct a remarkably simple but serviceable six-inch reflecting telescope

A transistorized drive for a telescope, and a sundial that keeps accurate time

An amateur's controlled experiments measure the effects of a tranquilizing drug on rats

A sundial that shows how any spot on earth is lit by the sun at any time

How to keep various reptiles healthy and happy in the home

How to fit a diffusion cloud-chamber with a magnet and other accessories

How to recreate the apparatus with which the charge of the electron was measured

How amateurs can build a simple magnetic-resonance spectrometer

How short-term weather forecasts were made on the basis of electrical effects

Mostly about unearthing the fossils of dinosaurs

How to make an electrostatic machine to accelerate both electrons and protons

On experiments with gibberellic acid, which stimulates the growth of plants

About a remarkably simple device to attain low temperatures, and various other matters

Mostly about some ingenious ways of studying the artificial satellites

How a group of high-school students constructed a beta-ray spectrometer

An excursion into the problem of measuring irregular areas

How a Kansas amateur group counts meteors by reflection of radio waves

How to make a pendulum that will demonstrate the rotation of the earth

A refracting telescope in which the main lens consists of only one piece of glass

An amateur builds a spectroheliograph to observe details on the disk of the sun

How to cultivate harmless bacteria and perform experiments with them

How a gas-discharge tube was made and applied in diverting experiments