title: The Amateur Scientist: Experiments and Constructions, Challenges and Diversions in the Fields of Astronomy, Archeaology, Biology, Natural Sciences, Earth Sciences, Nuclear Physics, Mathematical MacHines, Aerodynamics, Optics, Heat, Electronics.
author: C.L. Stong
description: This is the first book of its kind for the scientific enthusiast. It contains over fifty projects, from every scientific field, each of which has been tested and successfully performed by a num- ber of amateurs. Almost all of them require only cheap and easily obtain- able materials and apparatus: yet they range from making your own atom smasher, seismological observatory, mathematical computor, or X-ray machine, to how to cultivate harmless bacteria.
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  **Leonardo da Vinci programme**
  
  
  **European Commission**
  
  
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  **A Practical Handbook for Scientific and Technical**
  
  
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  **Zuzana Svobodova,** Technical University Brno, Czech Republic ****
  
  
  **Heidrun Katzorke** and **Ursula Jaekel,** Technische Universität, Chemnitz,
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  **Stefania Dugovicova** and **Mike Scoggin,** Comenius University, Bratislava,
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  **A Practical Handbook for Scientific and Technical Writers** **CONTENTS**
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Foreword
  
  
  
  
  
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