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  • The Boy's Playbook of Science

    by John Henry Pepper ...
    The Boy's Playbook of Science is a hands-on, educational book written by John Henry Pepper, designed to teach young readers about science through engaging experiments and activities. The book covers a wide range of topics, including physics, chemistry, and biology, making complex scientific concepts accessible through simple and fun demonstrations. Pepper encourages children to explore the natural ... Read more

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  • The Boy's Playbook of Science

    Unlocking the Wonders of Scientific Discovery for Young Minds

    by John Henry Pepper ...
    In "The Boy's Playbook of Science," John Henry Pepper offers a captivating introduction to the principles of science through engaging experiments and accessible explanations. This work is characterized by its playful yet informative tone, making complex scientific concepts digestible for young readers. Pepper, a Victorian-era scientist and educator, situates his book within the broader popular ... Read more

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  • The New Science of Strong Materials

    Or Why You Don't Fall Through the Floor

    by J E Gordon ...
    Why isn't wood weaker that it is? Why isn't steel stronger? Why does glass sometimes shatter and sometimes bend like spring? Why do ships break in half? What is a liquid and is treacle one? All these are questions about the nature of materials. All of them are vital to engineers but also fascinating as scientific problems. During the 250 years up to the 1920s and 1930s they had been answered ... Read more

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  • The Story of Electricity

    by John Munro ...
    A fascinating early 20th Century look at the science of electricity, including some of the interesting and sometimes bizarre uses that early inventors found for the electrical force, such as Edison's electromagnetic pen (a very early form of photocopier), an instrument that could detect the level of starlight, and even (don’t try this one at home kids!) a method for electro-plating lizards! ... Read more

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  • The Chemical History of a Candle (Illustrated)

    A Course of Lectures Delivered Before a Juvenile Audience at the Royal Institution

    by Michael Faraday ...
    From the primitive pine-torch to the paraffin candle, how wide an interval! between them how vast a contrast! The means adopted by man to illuminate his home at night, stamp at once his position in the scale of civilisation. The fluid bitumen of the far East, blazing in rude vessels of baked earth; the Etruscan lamp, exquisite in form, yet ill adapted to its office; the whale, seal, or bear fat, ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Harvard Classics Volume 30

    Faraday, Helmholtz, Kelvin, Newcomb, Etc

    by Michael Faraday, Golden Deer Classics, Hermann von Helmholtz, Lord Kelvin, Simon Newcomb, Sir Archibald Geikie ...
    Series Book 30 - Harvard Classics
    Contents: 1. The Forces of Matter and The Chemical History of a Candle, by Michael Faraday 2. On the Conservation of Force and Ice and Glaciers, by Hermann von Helmholtz 3. The Wave Theory of Light and The Tides, by Lord Kelvin 4. The Extent of the Universe, by Simon Newcomb 5. Geographical Evolution, by Sir Archibald Geikie ... Read more

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  • Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency

    [Illustrated & Biography Added]

    by Nikola Tesla ...
    It was in this interesting border region, and from among these valiant Eastern folk, that Nikola Tesla was born in the year 1857, and the fact that he, today, finds himself in America and one of our foremost electricians, is striking evidence of the extraordinary attractiveness alike of electrical pursuits and of the country where electricity enjoys its widest application.Mr. Tesla's native place ... Read more

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  • The Story of Electricity

    by John Munro ...
    The purpose of this little book is to present the essential facts of electrical science in a popular and interesting way, as befits the scheme of the series to which it belongs. Electrical phenomena have been observed since the first man viewed one of the most spectacular and magnificent of them all in the thunderstorm, but the services of electricity which we enjoy are the product solely of ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

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  • Experimental Researches in Electricity

    by Michael Faraday ...
    The power which electricity of tension possesses of causing an opposite electrical state in its vicinity has been expressed by the general term Induction; which, as it has been received into scientific language, may also, with propriety, be used in the same general sense to express the power which electrical currents may possess of inducing any particular state upon matter in their immediate ... Read more

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  • Lectures on the Forces of Matter

    And Their Relations to Each Other

    by Michael Faraday ...
    Self-taught chemist and scientist Michael Faraday was one of the most prolific and prescient researchers to emerge from England in the nineteenth century. In this captivating collection of talks and lectures, Faraday sets forth some of his most influential theories, findings, and conjectures. ... Read more

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  • On the various forces of nature and their relations to each other

    by Michael Faraday ...
    The present publication presents one or two points of interest. In the first place, the Lectures were especially intended for young persons, and are therefore as free as possible from technicalities; and in the second place, they are printed as they were spoken, verbatim et literatim. A careful and skilful reporter took them down; and the manuscript, as deciphered from his notes, was subsequently ... Read more

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  • Simple Experiments in Static Electricity - A Series of Instructive and Entertaining Experiments in Static Electricity for Students and Amateurs

    by Percival G. Bull ...
    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ... Read more

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