<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2>In a message dated 7/27/2001 3:14:59 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
<BR>pinknoiz@pinknoiz.com writes:
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<BR><BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">I tried to buy C.L. Stong's book, a collection of columns that were
<BR>published in Scientific American, which I read as a teenager.
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<BR>Creepazoid used book dealers wanted $150 for a copy, no thanks</BLOCKQUOTE>
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<BR>I still have the c1960 second edition paperback I purchased 25-30 years ago.
<BR>At 584 pages, the cover price was $3.95 ! (I don't wish to part with it).
<BR>Some of my favorite projects in it are "An Inexpensive X-ray Machine", "A
<BR>Homemade Atom Smasher", and "Amateur Rocketry". The rocket is made out of 6
<BR>foot long, 1.5" diameter steel tubing! What a cool book.
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<BR>The most 'modern' electronic project in it is a transistorized telescope
<BR>drive. The author states,"Perhaps the use of vacuum tubes would have been
<BR>wiser at this stage of transistor development; the choice of circuit
<BR>components designed expressly for transistors is still rather narrow"..."On
<BR>the other hand, the impressive reduction in size, weight, and power
<BR>consumption of apparatus which is made possible by the use of transistors
<BR>more than compensates the builder for time spent in modifying parts".
<BR>-Karl.
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<BR>"...the fact that an experiment delivers an unexpected answer means simply
<BR>that you have not asked the question you assume you have asked." - C.L.Stong.</FONT></HTML>