THE BOY'S PLAYBOOK OF SCIENCE:
INCLUDING THE
Various Manipulations and Arrangements
OF
CHEMICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL APPARATUS REQUIREDFOR THE SUCCESSFUL PERFORMANCE OFSCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENTS.
IN ILLUSTRATION OF THE ELEMENTARY BRANCHES OFCHEMISTRY AND NATURAL PHILOSOPHY.
BY
JOHN HENRY PEPPER,
F.C.S., A. INST. C.E.; LATE PROFESSOR OF CHEMISTRY AT THE ROYAL POLYTECHNIC,ETC. ETC.AUTHOR OF "THE PLAYBOOK OF METALS."
NEW EDITION.
Illustrated with 470 Engravings,
CHIEFLY EXECUTED FROM THE AUTHOR'S SKETCHES,BY H. G. HINE.
LONDON:
GEORGE ROUTLEDGE AND SONS,
THE BROADWAY, LUDGATE.
NEW YORK: 416, BROOME STREET.
1869.
LONDON.
SAVILL, EDWARDS AND CO., PRINTERS, CHANDOS STREET.
COVENT GARDEN.
Wheatstone's telephonic concert at the Polytechnic, inwhich the sounds and vibrations pass inaudible through an intermediatehall, and are reproduced in the lecture-room unchanged in theirqualities and intensities. Frontispiece.
TO
PROFESSOR LYON PLAYFAIR, C.B., F.R.S.
PROFESSOR OF CHEMISTRY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH.
Dear Sir,
I Dedicate these pages to your Children, whom I often had the pleasureof seeing at the Polytechnic during my direction of that Institution. Ido so as a mark of respect and appreciation of your talent and zeal, andof your public-spirited advocacy of the Claims of Science in this greatand commercial country.
Without making you responsible in any way for the shortcomings of thishumble work on Elementary Science, allow me to subscribe myself,
Dear Sir,
Yours most respectfully,
CONTENTS.
| PAGE | |
| INTRODUCTION. | 1 |
| CHAPTER I. | |
| THE PROPERTIES OF MATTER—IMPENETRABILITY | 3 |
| CHAPTER II. | |
| CENTRIFUGAL FORCE | 17 |