[sdiy]Somewhat OT: Complete "Amateur Scientist" on CD-ROM

[KHeck73 at aol.com]

In a message dated 7/27/2001 3:14:59 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
pinknoiz at pinknoiz.com writes:


> I tried to buy C.L. Stong's  book, a collection of columns that were 
> published in Scientific American, which I read as a teenager.
> 
> 

I still have the c1960 second edition paperback I purchased 25-30 years ago. 
At 584 pages, the cover price was $3.95 ! (I don't wish to part with it). 
Some of my favorite projects in it are "An Inexpensive X-ray Machine", "A 
Homemade Atom Smasher", and "Amateur Rocketry". The rocket is made out of 6 
foot long, 1.5" diameter steel tubing! What a cool book. 

The most 'modern' electronic project in it is a transistorized telescope 
drive. The author states,"Perhaps the use of vacuum tubes would have been 
wiser at this stage of transistor development; the choice of circuit 
components designed expressly for transistors is still rather narrow"..."On 
the other hand, the impressive reduction in size, weight, and power 
consumption of apparatus which is made possible by the use of transistors 
more than compensates the builder for time spent in modifying parts".  
-Karl.

"...the fact that an experiment delivers an unexpected answer means simply 
that you have not asked the question you assume you have asked." - C.L.Stong.
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