A PDF of the 1960 book can be found here: http://www.sciencemadness.org/library/books/projects_for_the_amateur_scienti st.pdf
Dave > -----Original Message----- > From: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com > [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of Larry McDavid > Sent: Friday, June 27, 2014 22:47 > To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement > Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Loran, GPS, Lightning, Timing > > C. L. Stong wrote The Amateur Scientist articles in > Scientific American > magazine for many years, throughout the 1940s - 1960s and > later period. > As a child, I read these avidly and built many of the things he > described. I did not know he was a ham! > > All The Amateur Scientist articles are available on a CD. I > particularly > remember building a nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer (well, a > simple one) in the late 1950s from one of his articles. > > Scientific American magazine today is a mere shadow of its > former self, > due mainly to a new publisher imported from Popular Science magazine. > There is no longer an Amateur Scientist article in each issue. > > Larry W6FUB > > > On 6/27/2014 9:34 PM, DaveH wrote: > > The only C.L. Stong (W2PFM - great call!!!) article that I > could find at QST > > came up in an archive search: "How to Cook a Ham" from March 1947 > > > > A story about not having safety interlocks and getting zapped. > > > > http://p1k.arrl.org/pubs_archive/28044 > > > > You need to be an ARRL member to access the file. > > > > I also searched for "Lightning" and found nothing about > detecting nearby > > strikes, only about protection. Searched from around 1980 > back through 1940. > > > > Same for e-field. > > > > Dave > > KF7VNE > ... > > -- > Best wishes, > > Larry McDavid W6FUB > Anaheim, California (SE of Los Angeles, near Disneyland) > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.