The book of potentially catastrophic science
Item details
- ISBN: 9780761156871
- ISBN: 0761156879
- ISBN: 9780761162520
- ISBN: 0761162526
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Physical Description:
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xiii, 305 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm - Publisher: New York, NY : Workman Pub., ©2010.
Contents / Notes
General Note: | "50 experiments for daring young scientists"--Cover. |
Formatted Contents Note: | >2 million years B.C. : The first Stone Age tools -- 1 million-1.6 million years B.C. : Humans master fire -- C. 8000 B.C. : The bow and arrow -- 3500 B.C. : The Sumerian wheel -- 330 B.C. : Aristotle proclaims : Earth is NOT flat -- A.D. 132 : Zhang Heng's seismometer -- C. A.D. 850 : The Chinese alchemist's gunpowder -- 1504 : Regiomontanus's lunar eclipse -- 1616 : Galileo's telescope -- 1665 : Isaac Newton's falling apple -- 1752 : Ben Franklin's electric kite -- 1771 : Galvani's circuit and Volta's battery -- 1783 : The Montgolfiers' hot-air balloon -- 1796 : Edward Jenner's miracle vaccine -- 1797 : Garnerin's parachute -- 1825 : George Stephenson's steam train -- 1854 : Otis's elevator safety brake -- 1859 : Darwin revolutionary evolutionary book -- 1895 : Röntgen identifies X-rays -- 1898 : Marie Curie discovers radioactive isotope -- 1903 : The Wright brothers' flying machine -- 1905 : Einstein's atom -- 1926 : Robert Goddard's rocket ship -- 1936 : Igor Sikorsky's helicopter -- 1942 : Fermi's chain reaction -- 1947 : Chuck Yeager's sonic boom -- 1947 : John Stapp rides on a rocket sled -- 1953 : Watson and Crick's DNA -- 1960 : Theodore Maiman's laser beam -- 1961 : Yuri Gagarin goes into orbit -- 1962 : Rachel Carson's Silent Spring -- 1967 : Christiaan Barnard's human heart transplant -- 1999 : Dieter Issler's avalanche -- 2008 : The Large Hadron Collider. |
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Subject: | Science Experiments Science Miscellanea Science Science Experiments |
Genre: | Miscellanea. |
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