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From: ee5391aa@hydra.unm.edu (Duke McMullan n5gax)
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Subject: Re: Where can I get an inexpensive seismometer?
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Date: 10 Mar 89 17:03:13 GMT
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In article <37061@bbn.COM> aboulanger@bbn.com writes:
>Ah the good ole days! There was indeed a book of some of the 50s-60s
>Amateur Science articles including the seismometer. Wasn't the guy Gil
>Strang? The publisher was Freedman.
>
>Albert Boulanger

C. L. Stong.

Yep, I enjoy Jearl Walker's "Amateur Scientist," but I sure miss Stong's. The 
latter had a lot more construction-oriented stuff. There was a book published
containing many of the better projects -- there were a couple of copies in my
high-school library, and I had one or the other checked out a LOT of the time.

It seems to me that I remember reading somewhere that a more recent edition had
been put out that contained more recent stuff, too, but that's lost in the
mists of memory.

Brother, some of those projects! The aforementioned seismometer, a linear par-
ticle accelerator, vaccuum systems, cryogenics, nuclear magnetic resonance,
x-ray generators, telescopes, spectrometers,...

Hey, and remember, this was prior to 1965 with NO MICROCOMPUTERS AVAILABLE!


				"Those were The Days,"
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     "Nous sommes les petits lapins -- assis sur nos petits derrieres."
   Duke McMullan n5gax nss13429r phon505-255-4642 ee5391aa@hydra.unm.edu