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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     School Library Journal Review     More Content       More by this author     Connolly, Sean, 1956-     Subjects     Science -- Experiments -- Juvenile literature.     Science -- Miscellanea -- Juvenile literature.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Connolly, Sean, 1956-       by title:      The book of potentia...       by call number:      507.8 C752bp     Search the Web     Connolly, Sean, 1956-     Science -- Experiments -- Juvenile literature.     Science -- Miscellanea -- Juvenile literature.       MARC Display

The book of potentially catastrophic science / by Sean Connolly. by Connolly, Sean, 1956- Workman Pub., c2010. Call #: 507.8 C752bp Subjects Science -- Experiments -- Juvenile literature.   Science -- Miscellanea -- Juvenile literature. ISBN:  9780761156871 (alk. paper) 0761156879 (alk. paper) Alternate title:  Potentially catastrophic science Description:  xiii, 305 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. Notes:  "50 experiments for daring young scientists"--Cover. Contents:  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's 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 : Yari Gagarin goes into orbit -- 1962 : Rachel Carson's silent spring -- 1967 : Christian Barnard's human heart transplant -- 1999 : Dieter Issler's avalance -- 2008 : the large hadron collider. Summary:  Presents in introduction to thirty-four scientific breakthroughs, discussing the history of their discovery and providing instructions for conducting experiments which demonstrate their principles. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Halifax North Memorial Public Library Children's Nonfiction 507.8 C752bp Childrens Books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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