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

[marmot1 at magma.ca]

Hi KA4HJH and list,
I looked forward to reading that column every month as a teenager and 
read every back issue I could find. Neat DIY projects like homemade 
proton accelerator, plasma torch, cyclotron, spectroheliograph, nitrogen 
pulse laser, vibrating reed electrometer... I think the only thing they 
didn't feature was a DIY helium liquifier. Absolute masterpiece - every 
bit as good as Electronotes, but different. BTW the artist was Roger 
Hayward. I have another very neat book: "Procedures in Experimental 
Physics", Prentice-Hall Inc. 637 pages, published in 1945. The author is 
John Strong,  illustrated by Roger Hayward.

It is filled with Hayward drawings, and mentions on the title page that 
Hayward was an architect from Pasadena, California. Remotely on-topic: 
there is a chapter on building your own GM tubes from scratch (also 
proportional counters, vacuum thermopiles, electrometers, lab optics, 
photography, working with fused silica, high vacuum technique, coating 
surfaces by evaporation and sputtering, vacuum tube circuits...) This is 
definitely DIY of a high order.
Regards, Mike