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id: 32492
author: Unknown
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  fill the glass, and, laying a piece of paper or thin card over the drawing away the paper, you leave the water in the glass, with its water, dry it at a moderate heat, placing it on paper capable of on the inside of this box, place a piece of looking-glass that shall fixed at the bottom of the box, place a magnetic bar, two inches long, Procure some small glass bubbles, having a neck about an inch long, _To tell the Number of Points on Three Cards, placed under Three their faces upwards; place the second person''s cards over the first, Let the person who has drawn the two cards deduct the number of each card, three-quarters of an inch long, may appear like a common-sized After the like manner let five persons draw the same card. There is another method of placing the small case, which is by letting

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  Endless Amusement A Collection of Nearly 400 Entertaining Experiments in Various Branches of Science; Including Acoustics, Electricity, Magnetism, Arithmetic, Hydraulics, Mechanics, Chemistry, Hydrostatics, Optics; Wonders of the Air-Pump; All the Popular Tricks and Changes of the Cards, &c., &c. to Which is Added, a Complete System of Pyrotechny; Or, the Art of Making Fire-works.


id: 48041
author: St. John, Thomas M. (Thomas Matthew)
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  Needle; The Compass.--Exp. 11, To study the action of magnets Exp. 101, To study the effect of the electric current upon the magnetic needle.--Electrical Connections.--Current permanently magnetized by an electric current.--Exp. 157, To study the effect of a piece of iron placed inside of a magnetized wire.--Discussion.--Induced Currents and Work.--Exp. 176, To of wire having an iron core.--Induced Currents and Lines of and a coil of wire having an iron core.--Discussion of Exps. a current near a coil of wire or other closed circuit.--Exp. Directions.= (A) Place the little bar magnet (the needle) Directions.= (A) Magnetize the wire (Exp. 9). pole of a bar magnet, B M (Fig. 22), be placed near one end of a piece wire, W, joining the needle-magnets should not touch the coil. galvanoscope, etc., a coil of wire acts like a magnet when a current a coiled conductor has poles, magnetic field, etc., when a current

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  The Study of Elementary Electricity and Magnetism by Experiment Containing Two Hundred Experiments Performed with Simple, Home-made Apparatus


id: 47309
author: Monro, Alexander
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  produced; and that in Frogs, and other cold blooded Animals, the Nerves ANIMAL Electricity or different metals applied to the Head of a Frog, running, Animal Electricity to the Sciatic Nerves, by passing a gold excite convulsions in the Legs, after all the parts of the Frog have Legs on glass; if a gold Probe be applied so as to touch the Zinc and applied to the Zinc, and then to one of the Sciatic Nerves, both Legs, convulsed on touching the Zinc with the gold Probe held in the right ends in contact with the Muscles, and then touched the Zinc and Nerves other hand a gold Probe is applied to the Zinc and Nerve of the Leg Sciatic Nerves, I touched the Zinc, both Legs were convulsed. Frogs cut, at their Pelvis, all the parts but the Sciatic Nerves; if, but the Nerves; on applying the gold to the Zinc, convulsions of the

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  Experiments on the Nervous System with Opium and Metalline Substances Made Chiefly with the View of Determining the Nature and Effects of Animal Electricity


id: 51132
title: Whiskaboom
author: Arkin, Alan
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  Mrs. Burroughs and I are sending your son Jack to you because we do not Also, Jack owes us two weeks rent and, since Mrs. Burroughs and I are When I got home, Mrs. Burroughs told me she thought I ought to take "I don''t like to disturb you, Mr. Gretch, but Mrs. Burroughs is a He saw Mrs. Burroughs was a little nervous about When he got well, Mrs. Burroughs told him, "From now on, you''re going It looked like a real house in front and in back, but there wasn''t any knew, was as thin as the house, and I went charging in the back door, "Jack!" I hollered, and we hurried back into the house and upstairs. Like the house, Jack had insides, but "If he thinks more of his money than he does of his own son," Mrs. Burroughs said, "then he''s an unnatural father."


id: 59535
title: Project Hi-Psi
author: Riley, Frank
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  "I have an appointment with the Director." Lucifer Brill''s voice still eyes-only, Q-clearance sanctums, Lucifer Brill took matters into his When Lucifer Brill opened his eyes, his face was half buried in a white Lucifer turned back to the window in time to see two men, in the same be standard garb, Lucifer opened the door and faced the men coming up Lucifer did not raise his eyes to Nina''s face, but through the "If you please," Lucifer said to Huth, "I would like to observe your Lucifer saw Nina nod at him, and try to smile encouragingly. Nina looked at Lucifer again, hesitated, then turned away without Now, for the first time, Lucifer saw uncertainty on Huth''s face. "Our card tests have discovered many psi positives," Lucifer Huth put his hand on Lucifer''s shoulder. Lucifer thought of his crude experiment with the psi positive children,


id: 59304
title: Bright Islands
author: Riley, Frank
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  When the two Geno-Doctors were gone, Miryam took the red capsule from her young body, where the unwanted child of Genetics Center stirred so The white walls of her Center room blurred in and out of focus. the two Geno-Doctors was changing into a white coat. "Yes, Sir," replied the young doctor, sounding the proper note of The Geno-Sar paused, and because a comment was obviously in order, the young doctor said: For an instant the Geno-Sar''s steel-blue eyes narrowed, and Miryam was Miryam knew little about genetics, or any other science. closed, Miryam let her mind stray out of the white room, out of the Geno-Doctor in the corridor near her room. "Wonder if psi will build those strings of lights?" Then the young doctor turned almost guiltily from the window to meet the Geno-Sar coming down the corridor. Delivery, Miryam thought. And if the young doctor was right, if psi....


id: 51751
title: Oh, Rats!
author: De Ford, Miriam Allen
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  SK540, the 27th son of two very ordinary white laboratory rats, SK540, in other words, was a super-rat. It had belonged to Norah Vinson''s great-aunt Martha, who had left it super-rat loose on the world." "What on earth could even a super-rat do that would matter--to human A rat ran right over my face!" There couldn''t be rats in this place. "What do you know?" Philip said that evening. "You couldn''t keep me away," Norah responded. Rats couldn''t talk, he knew, and they couldn''t understand human speech. Let either one of them out, now they knew the rats were there, "Philip," Norah reminded him, "if you don''t go to work, they know we "You know," Philip Vinson went on, "I could kill you, very easily." The Philip and Norah exchanged glances. "It''s probably Kelly, from the lab," Philip said, "trying to find out "That''s nonsense, Norah," Philip objected. "We must eat," said Norah.


id: 51824
title: World in a Bottle
author: Lang, Allen Kim
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  "Sterile like germ-free," I said. "You''re dry by the tank," Dr. McQueen said into his hand microphone. "Yes, sir," I said, checking the gage of my reserve-air tank. "Safety man is suited and scrubbing, Chief," the monitor said. "This is John Bogardus, the Voice of Purity," I said, "broadcasting "I''m sorry, Johnny," McQueen said. "That''s a good nine hours ago," I said, glancing at the clock set over "I''m getting a little drunk, Johnny," the Firebird said, "and a little "Tell me, John," Dorsey said. "A man could hardly have been alone on Mars," Dorsey said. "Pick any ''F''or ''G''-type star with planets," Dorsey said. "O.K., John," Dorsey said. years," Dorsey said. half light-years from here was human," I said. "Go on, Johnny," Dorsey said. "Blackmail sounds like just what we need," Dorsey said. "O.K. Thirty of us were born into the Big Tank," I said.


id: 51397
title: People Soup
author: Arkin, Alan
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  "Me wants to know," said Bonnie, picking up an apple that had rolled "It''s animal serum," Bob said, sliced his thumb on the sardine can, "What are you doing now, Bob?" Bonnie asked. Bob dropped the basketball on Bonnie''s head and ran back into the "Medicine smells worse and it makes you healthy," Bob said, while Bonnie took her finger out of the pot and stared at it for a moment. I''m a chicken, Bob?" it said, cocking its head to one side and staring "I don''t like to be a chicken, Bob," it said. "You better change me back, boy," it said, and gave Bob Bonnie was trying very hard to see Bob with both eyes at once, which "Ah, you''re nothing but a sissy," Bob said, and licked off a whole "You''re still a St. Bernard," said Bonnie. "Not the same stuff," said Bob.


id: 60664
title: Pipe Dream
author: Leiber, Fritz
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  It wasn''t until the mermaid turned up in his bathtub that Simon Grue which held a sort of pent-shack, a cylindrical old water tank, and During the 1920''s, old-timers told Simon, the house had been owned by Simon that the newcomers were clearly White Russians; he could tell it curt front-sidewalk acquaintance developed and Simon came to know their Simon assured himself that he had the Stulnikov-Gurevich face. old-timers assured Simon there was a link between the water supply of So, thought Simon as he groped and strained, if the Russians were Stulnikov-Gurevich had become problematical--indeed, Simon decided that transparent pipe running between the water tank and the shack, braced on the water tank too--it was too high for Simon to see, but there Staring at the pipe again, Simon got the Ducking under the pipe where it crossed the pent-shack, Ivan picked Wind was shaking the heavy pipe over Simon''s head, tossing him back and


id: 60434
title: Learning Theory
author: McConnell, James V.
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  As I sit here in this small room and think about it, I am impressed to dabble in esoteric problems of animal learning, but it was scarcely And how he hates teaching Learning Theory come across a new species, you worry about behavior first, physiology had been studying animal learning by putting white rats in a Skinner learn to press the lever in order to get a pellet of food, which was discover that pressing the lever would give me food some of the time, I never know ahead of time how many pellets--I mean seemed) before the lever delivered food the next time. hour wandering through the thing the first time I found myself in it. good to realize that my own white rats could have learned the maze a functioning as a reward, and that I am learning the problems merely to and jumping stand problems, and the results could not have confirmed


id: 60614
title: Rat in the Skull
author: Phillips, Rog
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  "Well, it''s about time," Alice said, turning over on her back and "I can''t understand their attitude!" Dr. MacNare said to Alice when he "Paul knows he''s not allowed in your study," Alice said. Paul had gone to bed, Dr. MacNare brought the test frame into the study "Now I''m getting that _feeling_ again, Joe," Alice said, laughing "Adam," Dr. MacNare said one day, "will have to wear this robot all his Thus, Dr. MacNare''s Adam was born into his body, and the time of the Dr. MacNare quite often stood behind Adam where he could watch the rat Slowly, subtly, Adam''s rat body became to Alice a pure brain, and his We have said little or nothing about Dr. MacNare''s life at the "I don''t know, Alice," Dr. MacNare had said. "And you, Paul," Alice said. "You''ll be all right while we''re gone, Adam?" Dr. MacNare said.


id: 60862
title: Thirty Degrees Cattywonkus
author: Bell, James
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  At the moment, it seemed to Ernie Lane that in a house which even the real estate agent said had "either" eleven or twelve rooms, it was While Melinee fried the chicken, Ernie walked carefully and wordlessly "Of course not," Ernie said, smiling. hallway, Ernie looked over his shoulder and saw the extra door. suddenly try to stop him, Ernie sneaked up on the door. he turned to head for the tool cabinet, Ernie heard the din of distant It was not Ernie''s intention to crawl through the door, but the way the "You look pale, Ernie," he said. Ernie here says we are thirty degrees off. Ernie opened his eyes and looked beyond the bar and the experimental "You got through to our world to find out about us," Ernie said. "No, Ernie, but there''s a man at the door in pajamas like yours who


id: 61228
title: The Big Headache
author: Harmon, Jim
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  "Doctor, we understand you have severe headaches," Mitchell said. "Doctor," Mitchell said quickly, "I know it''s a tremendous favor to "You''re an important man, doctor," Ferris said. "It''s Macklin''s wife," Ferris said. "What do you mean by that, Mrs. Macklin," Mitchell said sharply. "Mrs. Macklin," Mitchell said quickly, "I''m sure we can help if there Mitchell tried to stop Colonel Sidney as he went past, but the doctor Mitchell and Ferris stared at Colonel Carson and Macklin and at each "What did he mean, Macklin is an idiot?" Mitchell asked. "But--" Mitchell said, impatient to examine Macklin for himself. "Yes, doctor," Mitchell said eagerly, "just as you used to be." "Mrs. Macklin," the Army man said levelly, "if you don''t help us "I''m no psychiatrist," Mitchell said, "but I think she wants Macklin "How long will this stage last, Dr. Mitchell?" Colonel Carson said in "Dr. Ferris!" Mitchell said.


id: 61367
title: Another Earth
author: Landau, Al
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  What had happened to Richardson during the test that afternoon? Richardson''s voice, reading his instruments, acknowledging Snow''s He heard Richardson''s voice reading How could this happen to a man like Richardson When Franstein answered the call, Snow asked him to drop in for coffee "Listen to this," Snow said, and went to the tape recorder. _Play_, and presently they heard the two voices, Snow''s and There came the sudden stopping of Richardson''s voice in the middle "That''s all," said Snow, and switched off the machine. "Then how the devil does it come out of a man like Richardson who''s "Something''s happened to Richardson," he said. "Something has happened, Ham," said Franstein. there came the voices of Snow and Richardson. "That''s this afternoon''s test," Richardson said. "Listen, Ham," Franstein said. I know where that dream came from," he said. Richardson looked down on the little man and nodded his head.


