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How to become a scientist

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By Aaron A. Warford
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A practical handbook of hands-on experiments and demonstrations across chemistry, optics, pneumatics, mechanics, acoustics, pyrotechnics, and recreational mathematics aimed at young readers and amateur experimenters. It provides clear, step-by-step procedures for chemical curiosities such as invisible inks, combustion and gas effects, and reactive visual displays, alongside mechanical and optical tricks and mathematical puzzles. Each entry explains materials and methods while highlighting the basic scientific principles that produce the effects, and many items are designed for parlor entertainment or educational play. Practical cautions and brief explanatory notes accompany the instructions to encourage safe, instructive practice.

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Title: How to become a scientist

Giving interesting and instructive experiments in chemistry, mechanics, acoustics and pyrotechnics

Author: Aaron A. Warford

Release date: August 30, 2023 [eBook #71522]

Language: English

Original publication: New York: Frank Tousey, 1900

Credits: Demian Katz, Craig Kirkwood, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (Images courtesy of the Digital Library@Villanova University.)

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Transcriber’s Notes:

The Table of Contents was created by the transcriber and placed in the public domain.

Additional Transcriber’s Notes are at the end.