Lucky science : accidental discoveries from gravity to velcro, with experiments
1995
Book
Describes how scientific discoveries and inventions since ancient times have occured unexpectedly, as researchers have made new connections between the known and the unknown, and provides instructions for simple experiments to duplicate the discoveries.
Item Details
ISBN:
- 9780471009542
- 0471009547
Description: x, 110 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Notes: Includes index.
Contents:
- Archimedes measures volume
- Sir Isaac Newton discovers gravity
- The electric battery and electromagnetism
- Daguerre invents photography
- Vaccination
- Vulcanization of rubber
- Safety glass
- Herculaneum and Pompeii
- Mammoths in the Black Hills
- Mastodons in Austin
- The Taung child
- Lucy
- The Rosetta Stone
- Lascaux Cave
- The Dead Sea scrolls
- Astronomical discoveries
- Penicillin
- Substitute sugar
- Nylon
- Velcro
- Ivory soap
- Corn flakes and wheaties
- Post-its
- Scotchgard
- Silly Putty
- Teflon.
LCCN: 94010373
Control Number: 55252
Publisher: New York : John Wiley, [1995]