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Gaston Tissandier

Gaston Tissandier

(November 21st, 1843 - August 30th, 1899)

Gaston Tissandier was a French chemist, meteorologist, aviator, and editor. He escaped besieged Paris by balloon during the Franco-Prussian war in September 1870. In 1883, Tissandier fit a Siemens electric motor to an airship, thus creating the first electric-powered flight. In 1875 he became deaf and two of his companions died during a balloon flight that went 8600 meters high. In 1873 he founded and edited the scientific magazine La Nature and wrote several books.

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Gaston Tissandier
Science Amusements by Gaston Tissandier

Translated from the French by Henry Frith. The French original from 1880 is considered the very first title in the genre of books of simple science experiments that anybody can conduct in their own home. But this book is much more than a collection of kitchen sink science experiments. It is an engineering and science primer that touches on many topics of physics and chemistry including organic chemistry, material science, heat, light, sound, gases, aeronautics, and a lot more.

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Half Hours of Scientific Amusement by Gaston Tissandier

Practical physics and chemistry without apparatus.

A collection of simple science experiments that anybody can conduct in their own home. In part based on the column "physique sans appareils" (physics without apparatus) in La Nature. Translated by Henry Frith from the French.

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Young people of both sexes, and persons of all ages who have leisure and a taste for that which is ingenious as well as instructive and amusing, may be commended to this remarkably interesting collection of experiments, nearly all of which can be readily performed by an unskilled person...

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