The Ernest Glitch Chronicles
A Novel by Roger Curry. Contains a Plethora of Victorian Anarchic Experimental Science
Tickle Smoke and the Graf Zeppelin
An airship plunging through a rain of liquid titanium tetrachloride
Violent Detonation of Potassium & Hydrofluoric Acid plus the 322 Faced Fluorite Crystal of Mr Phillips
Count the faces, don't breath the fumes
Ludwig Mond on Ammonia from Coal
Industrial Chemistry
Sulphur Mines In Sicily 1888
A rather dry monologue, but the description of "calcarone" is of interest
Dentist's Alarming Explosion - TACN Tetraammine Copper Nitrate
Plus the discovery of a naturally occurring high-explosive mineral - Tacnite
A Royal Electrostatic Discharge, Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Phillip & The Bishop of Durham
The Queen may have had to change her tweed underpants after the demo of a high voltage capacitor
Wollaston's Discovery of a Controversial Element - Palladium
The Preparation of Nitrogen Gas from Flesh
Lumps of meat produce azote
Laboratory Shed in 1970
CTR Wilson, of Cloud Chamber Fame, on Thunderstorms & Sprites 1924
The Radium Water Worked Fine Until His Jaw Came Off
Gallium Crystallising and Other Illustrations
LIPARI OBSIDIAN with Oriented CRISTOBALITE Spherulites
The Great Newton Aycliffe Tornado of 1995
W48 155-millimetre nuclear artillery shell
The STC 4021 Microphone - VIE: Visual Indicating Equipment of World War II
The Transducer Corporation "Bullet" Model TR-6 Microphone - a 1938 design classic
Flat Earthers; the Bedford Level Experiment of 1838
Apple and Biscuit Microphone for Acoustics Laboratories - the STC 4034
Tetanus Symptoms Ameliorated With Cannabis Enema
Full Text of William Armstrong's Address to the 1863 British Association for the Advancement of Science
Environmental Aspects of Autonomous Lawnmowers
Victorian 3D Printer
A computer controlled additive manufacturing machine was invented in 1857
A 1901 Dentists Nitrous Generator
Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
The Artificial Goat
A Victorian water-powered autonomous lawnmower
Giant Levitating Lipstick - Britain Launches Prospero Satellite
Aldini Reanimates George Forster's Corpse 1803
Using a Blunderbuss against Frogs - Brave Captain Hornsby
St. Elmo's Fire, Gold and Minerals at Leadhills
Cigars de Joy - Hallucinogenic Cigarettes for Asthma Sufferers
Dangerous Thesis Work - 34 Milligrams of Radium Sulphate
Cornish Lithium 1864
Edison's Assistant Mr. Dally Becomes X-Ray Amputee
Display Display Software
Phossy Jaw - White Phosphorus Causes Match-Makers Leprosy
A Case of Poisoning with Hashish - 1856
Argus As 014 Pulse Jet - powered by coal-dust
Unearthing Fullerenes - Oak Ridge National Laboratory
When Crocoite was worth its weight in gold
Fullerenes Discovered in Victorian England
A letter from Ernest Glitch (son of Mad Judge Glitch) to Michael Faraday appears to note the crystallisation of C60 some 150 years before Kroto
Flesh Transducer
A Weapon of Mass Destruction in Victorian Times: The Coal-Dust Flame-Thrower
Horror weapon invented in Weardale by Glitch. Also in 1862, his assistant noted the depletion of U235 in pitchblende from Oklo, and suggested that a natural reactor could be the cause of the isotopic anomaly
19th Century Jet-Powered Flying Machine in Weardale
Powered manned Flight achieved long before the Wright Bros., using Multiple Valve-less Pulse Jets
The First Flight (part 2 of above)
part two of 19th Century Jet-Powered Flying Machine in Weardale, plus The Steam-Powered Rope-Engine - Mad Judge Glitch`s Power-Gallows - An account of the first test of this capital punishment machine
Gutta Percha - a natural thermoplastic
Glitch Constructs Hypersonic Gun
Upper Weardale was impacted by several projectiles in late 1857, in Glitch`s words, "Velocities approached 70,000 furlongs to the hour, Bishop"
Victorian Cyclotron
E. Glitch bombards diamonds with high energy particles to produce coloured 'fancy' stones. His equipment, mentioned in a letter to M. Faraday, pre-dates that of Lawrence by some 73 years
Victorian Liquid-Fuel Rocket Engine
An account of the use of hypergolic propellants and deLaval nozzles in 1856
Beagle 2 - A 19th Century Hybrid Coal / Liquid Nitrous Oxide Powered Rocket
Busty seam coal & laughing gas propels scientific probe into space, successfully launched 24th July 1863 from Weardale, returning 30th June 1908 over Siberia
Observation of Light Emission from Electrically Stressed Silicon Carbide CrystalsAn Early Light Emitting Diode
The Glitch Machine Gun
A fully automatic weapon 24 years before Hiram Maxim
The Glitch Sporting Bathyscaphe
Accounts of the use of this extreme depth marine hunting vessel
1858: First X-Ray?
Rupert Glitch photographs his own bones using tandem Cuthbertson electrical machines
The 1855 Grand National Steeplechase at Aintree
The front page from the April 1855 issue of "The Turf" refers to equestrian enhancement of a scientific nature
Lord Armstrong's Hydraulic Engines
Boxing day 1799. Humphry Davy Encloses his Head in a Box Full of Nitrous Oxide Gas
"Nothing Exists But Thoughts!" A quote from Davy, off his head on 57 liters of nitrous oxide, in an attempt "to produce excitement equal in duration and superior in intensity to that occasioned by high intoxication from opium or alcohol."
Michael Faraday & Micromercurialism
Michael Faraday
Plastic from Piss - Urea Formaldehyde
The Bottle of Felix Klein
Hermann Sprengel's Pump, 1865
Casein Formaldehyde
Hofmann & Formaldehyde
Sergeant Charles Anderson - Michael Faraday's Indefatigable Assistant
Jem Mace, in his time "The Most Scientific Pugilist Alive"
On a large Varanus species from the Island of Komodo, 1912
Computational Machines - Letter from Babbage to Davy 1822
CURARE - by ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT
The Apollo Guidance Computer
The Kuiper Belt and its implications
A Boiling River
Lavrion Old Mines
A Merlin is Made - Manufacture of the Spitfire Engine
The Lead District - from Durham Gazetteers 1828 & 1825
Victorian Hyperloop - Rammell's 1864 Pneumatic Railway at Crystal Palace
Time & Motion -- Taylor's Principles of Scientific Management & Gilbreth's Movies
Physicians in Great Danger From Medical X-Rays
An Address to Theoretical Physicists - The Fixion
Sperm Whale's Sexual Organs, Spermaceti & Ambergris
Growing Thallium Dendrites in 1879 - a beautiful forest of thorny crystals
Magnetic Effect on Arbor Diana Formation?
The Sympsychograph, by the founding president of Stanford University
The High Voltage Beatification of Professor Bose at Wittenburg
Burning Your Own Breath
For and Against Tobacco, 1865; The Pharmaceutical Journal
Lightning Experimentation Without Fatalities - 1897
A Couple of North Pennines Lead Mine Articles from Mine & Quarry Engineering
An Enlightening Lightning Article From the US National Bureau of Standards
The Burgess Shale was discovered by palaeontologist Charles Walcott on 30 August 1909
Thomson Describes His Water Dropper Electrostatic Generator
The Gossen Bisix Exposure Meter - a 1950's design classic
Unknown Explosive Coating on Bismuth Metal - 1935
The Mechanics of Hanging - Popular Science Monthly, August 1885
Strange Medicines 1887
Octahedral Fluorite - Glengowla Mines, Connemara
A Natural Hour-Glass of Amalgam
A couple of fulgurite articles from the 1880s
Spiders and Their Ways - Popular Science Monthly, October 1888
Chapman is Unaware of Methyl Nitrate's Propensity for Ease of Detonation - 1872
On Some Phenomena of Capillary Attraction
Pharaoh's Serpents - Lethal Victorian Toys
Some Curious Lights - a collection of phosphorescence phenomena, compiled in 1863
Explosive Victorian Gas Fittings
Extraordinary case of Electrical Excitement - 1837
Killer Toy Caps of Olden Times
Some Experiments with the Great Induction Coil at the Royal Polytechnic
George Gore on scientific research & Mr. Hennell's chest laid entirely open by a fulminate explosion
Heddle on Scottish Native Metals
Gibberne's Nervous Accelerator
Cacodyl Cyanide Chemistry Catastrophe - Professor Bunsen's Aphasia, Black Tongue, Blind Eye & Nearly Fatal Poisoning
The Gyrojet Rocket Pistol
The Science of Pool
Radium Topics, Observation of an Iridium Flare, & Some Miscellania
Steam Electrical Machine, Box of Rattlesnakes & Kitten, Electric Eel
Electricity & Guns
Borrowdale Wad Mine
Permian Fossils in the Co. Durham Marl Slate
Ferryhill Fossil Fish - the famous Coelacanth
HELL KETTLES of Darlington - Subsidence hollows over Permian Upper Marl evaporites
Human Sacrifices to Independence Day in America & Subsequent Home-Made Fireworks for "The Murderous Fourth."
Remarkable & Beautiful Scintillating Platinum Alloying Phenomena
The Polapulse Battery
Victorian High Explosive Confectionary & Monthier's Cheap and Nasty Human Urine Batteries
Hand Blown to Bits - Dynamite Stories, by Hudson Maxim
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Canyon Diablo Meteorite Diamonds
Hope's Nose Dendritic Gold
Two Seabed Liquids - Carbon Dioxide & Sulphur
1860s Magic Concert
Gold Amalgam Crystals
Action of Actinium on Minerals - Kunz 1904
Neumayer's Magnetic Survey of Victoria, 1861 - The Cranbourne Meteorites
THE ELECTRONIC CANDLE - Interesting Optical Feedback Behaviour of an Arduino Coupled LDR & PWM LED
A Genius in the Family, by Hiram Percy Maxim
Radioactive Substances as a Cause of Malignant Growths
LUMINESCENCE & INCANDESCENCE by E. Newton Harvey, 1920
NASA Microgravity Hopper Crystals
Chemistry Course Bound to Maim or Kill
Scottish Nitroglycerin & One Legged Stools
Local Pub Hosts Royal Society of Chemistry Soirée
Thallium Artist's Paints & Crookes vs. Lamy
Scottish Gold by Alfred Lock 1882
Detonating Sugar & Scottish Gold
Beautiful Bright Red Pyrrhotite Crystal - Teesdale
SWAN open source AAC
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Alston Gold
North Pennines Lead Mining - Britannica Eighth Edition 1853-1860
Mr. Thompson Draws 14 Inch Sparks From a Newcastle Chimney
The first images of plutonium & neptunium compounds
Experimental generation of volcanic lightning using Popocatépetl ash
Effects of Lightning, including Franklin's Cold Fusion - 1849
Accounts of the death of Professor Richmann in 1753, whilst studying atmospheric electricity
Bright Yellow Carcinogenic Chromate Produced by Garden Wood Burner
On the Phosphorescence of the Diamond, by P. Riess, 1845
Kakapo - an 1832 account & head-shagging video
Diminutive Ball Lightning Created Using a Holtz Electrostatic Generator - 1870
Gaugain's Sparks from Tourmaline 1857
Professor Higgins of Dublin Deliberately Inhales Carbon Monoxide
Picric Acid in Beer
The Torture of Victorian Electro-Puncture - High voltage acupuncture needles
Brewster's Universally Attractable Powder - Pyroelectric Tourmaline Dust
Electric Shock from Radium & Autoradiograph of Uraninite
A tie as essential safety equipment - radium 226 & Gems
Hazardous Radioactive Diamond
Cleveland Ironstone Mining 1956
Ebelmen's Artificial Minerals 1851
Artificial Pyromorphite, Wulfenite, Crocoite & Anglesite
The Story of Dynamite
Homoeopathy - ?
Asylum Researcher, Lauder Lindsay, on Scottish Gold
On the brain of the Negro, compared with that of the European and Orang-Outang
Rocket Experiments By Dr Robert H Goddard (1926-1945)
Excellent Electrical Articles - Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1910
DIAMOND. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1910
Instructions for the Discrimination of Minerals by Simple Chemical Experiments, 1841
1864 Catalogue of Minerals at the Museum of Practical Geology
Electrical Activity in Ore Deposits
Molten Lead in the Mouth - Trickery, Not Leidenfrost Effect
Optical Properties of the Iodide of Mercury - Thermochromism
Fluorine Gas From Heating Potassium Fluoroplumbate - 1894
Nitroglycerin References
Arsenic Article 1838
Cabinet of Curiosities
Detection of Gold in Sea Water
There's Bismuthinite in Them Thar Hills - Filiform Crystals, Cambokeels, Weardale
Acoustic Detonation of Nitrogen Triiodide
Tobacco Poison 1862
Crystals in Toad Vertebrae
Metallic Ores
Geodes of Beautiful Gold Coloured Crystals in Soda Manufacture Waste
Underwater Explosion Phenomena
Russian Illustrations of Minerals & Fossils
Electrostatically Floating Goldfish
Unnoticed Fullerenes - Willard Hershey's Desk-top Diamond Furnace
Sir William Crookes - Radium Bromide Diamonds & 190000psi Enclosed Cordite Explosions
1812 - Phillips on the cuprite from the Muttrell Load at Wheal Gorland, Cornwall
Diamonds from Moissan's Extraordinary Electric Furnace
Diamond Synthesis à la Verne
On the Artificial Formation of the Diamond. By J.B.Hannay
Sir Charles Algernon Parsons 1918 - Diamond Synthesis Using a Wildcat .303 Lee-Enfield Rifle
1821 Cambridge Professor of Mineralogy on North England Minerals
F.A. Abel, Esq., F.R.S., on Some of the Causes, Effects, and Military Applications of Explosions, 1862
Locomotive Powered by Hydrogen Peroxide
Loco
Brewster on Thermoluminescent Natural Calcium Fluoride
Nikon D3100
Electric Sparks from Calcium Chloride
Bunsen on Cacodyl Cyanide
Execution & Resuscitation of a Murderer - Wonderful Effects of Galvanism
Ducati 695 Monster
1820's - Reverend Sedgwick on Durham & Yorkshire Dykes
Anvil Crawler Lightning Described - 1850
Minerals of the Auriferous Districts of Wicklow
Dana Wrong - Bad Science in 1837 System of Mineralogy
A Geognostical Sketch of the North Pennine Orefield, 1814
The Thermoluminescence Spectrum of Fluorspar, 1905
The Fluorescence Spectrum of Fluorspar, 1905
Volta's Paradox & Lichtenberg's Giant Electrophorus
On the Preparations of the Indian Hemp, or Gunjah. 1843
Alteration of the Human Voice by Hydrogen
Who Discovered Photography? A Victorian View
Pressing on the Brains of Hospital Patients
Little Dog & Hydrofluoric Acid
Whimsical Effects of Nitrous Oxide Gas
On Double Crystals of Fluor Spar - Whewell 1821
Nitrogen Triiodide
Big Ice Crystals- fascinating frost damage
Experiments on Certain Oxalates
Marconi - Gold From Seawater
A Million Volts or Bust
Boiling Quicksilver & Fluorspar Reading Lamp
Ali G on Science
Mercury Flames, Phosphine & Oxygen Explosions, Throwing Glass Bottles of Hydrogen & Chlorine into Sunlight, and other Incredibly Dangerous Experiments for the Young Chemist in the 1860's.
Antimony Oxide Crystals, dimorphous forms, both artificial & natural
Randle's Folly - A Frankenstein Gold Mill at Dunolly
1774 - Edward Nairne's Exploding Wires & Cock Electrocution
Shoad & Float Ores, and Subsequent Hushing
Chemical Fogs
Sound from Vortices
Mr. Symmer's Static Silk Stockings
Victorian Production of One Ounce of Nitrogen Trichloride
A Discourse Relating to the Economical Production of the Most Dangerously Explosive Substance Known, Using Only Natural Minerals & Human Gastric Juice. The first chapter of "The Ernest Glitch Chronicles"
Nitrogen Trichloride References
Mineral Inclusion Photos & Eye-Straining Text
Artificial Crystallisation of Mineral Matters and Metals in the Moist Way, 1865
Greek Fire, 1864
Mr. Tomlinson's Experiments on the Electrical Fly
Luminous Fungi in Cardiff Coal Mines
How Does the World Look to a Fly?
Hunt on British Gold, 1865
Tyndall on Acoustic Flames 1867
The Impossibility of Photography & Hallucinatory Toads & Mushrooms
Dr. Schaphaeutl's Exploding Water Experiments, Tetrafluoroethane & Boiler Explosions
Ant Pheromone Vortex of Death
In Bed with Boyle - Clayton's Piezoluminescent Diamond, 1663
Western Kentucky Fluorite - 1905
Galvanic Reanimation of the Dead
Volcanic Gases and Sublimates
Bennet's Doubler
Marie Curie - Method of Extraction of Radium From a Tonne of Pitchblende Residues
Signatures of Scientists
The Boltsburn Flats
Funny Drug Man and Giant Waxy Monkey Frog
Chemistry and Physics of Energetic Materials
Classic & Unique Electric Vauxhall
Victorian British Bulk Drug Dealing - China Addicted To Morphine
Alpine Air to Produce 30 Million Volts for Atom Smasher - One Man Dies
Hot Air Heiligenschein
1808 Laughing Gas Experimentation
Nuclear Explosion Induced Lightning
Sorby's Illustrations of the Microscopical Structure of Crystals 1858
Using Glide Ratio to Stimulate the Hypothalamus & the Adrenal & Pituitary Glands
Dynamite in Geordieland, Blast Furnace Trouble
Los Alamos Nuclear Weapons Documents
Vintage, & Wonderful, Royal Institution Lectures
1810 Discovery of a Mass of Native Iron & Luminescent, Poisonous Plant in Brasil
Artificial Fulgurites
Artificial Chalybeate Water Exhibits Iridescent Surface Film - 1807
Two Hours of Excellent Science Entertainment - Royal Institution
High Explosive From Aussie Plants - 1858 to World War One
Copper Fulgurite Tops Vulcano
Galvanic Experiments on the Dead Body of a Criminal, Artificial Volcano, etc., etc.
Teesdale puddles - nano-mineral schwertmannite thin-film floaters
Sir William Armstrong - Interesting Intellect, Weapons Innovator
Punch Attempts British Association Humour - 1843
xkcd cartoons
1858 - Wöhler Extracts Organics From Meteorite
Preparation of Pure Tellurium. By Berzelius
Copper & Coal Gas Explosives - Professor Bottger Nearly Rediscovers Acetylene
Mr. Clarke excites his optic nerves with a generator
Explosions for Fun - Mega Bomba & Anvil Tossing
On the Evolution of Light During Crystallization
Thenard 1832, "Animals when allowed to breathe the pure gas fall down as if struck with a bullet"
A Couple of Electrical Machines
Mr. Rudder & Mr. Benson sink bottles from the Princess Victoria
The Lugworm - Arenicola marina - An Admiral Annelid for Anglers
Peculiar Compound of Platinum
Cobalt in Cleveland Ironstone 1863
Edison Wax Cylinders For Sound Recording
Cat Lives After Hydrocyanic Acid & Chlorine Experiment!
Desirable Cockpit & View
Photo Slideshow - Micromount Mineral Crystals
Victorian Artificial Formation of Minerals
Were Fox Measures 37 meter Teesdale Lead Vein Electrical Continuity 1838
1829 - Hydrogen Gas From Mushrooms
Titan's Many Layered Atmosphere
LOLA Simulator - A load of balls
Benjamin Franklin Electrocutes Turkeys
Metallo-Chromes - Lead Oxide Interference Colours
Project Cannikin - 5 Megaton Nuke & Sea Otter Eyeballs
Electro-Springs
A Random Walk
A Lecture on Semiconductor Physics by a Nobel Lauriate
It's Alive! Mr. Crosse's Acari
Artificial Minerals - Victorian Electrocrystallisation Experiments
Project Gnome - Fused Halite Stalactites
How Spiders Fly, Beer From Coal, Tea etc.
Amplification - The Early Years
Quantum Levitation
Cannabis & Nuclear Bomb Double Flash - The Bhangmeter
Bill Beaty - Scientist, Engineer & Educator Extraordinaire
Is Alcohol Food?
Explosive Drugs
Feynman - Genius & Nice Guy
Newcastle Town Moor Nitro Carnage; 30 Canisters Stashed in Boozer Cellar
Teesdale Tornado - Coldberry Rope Out
Bullet impacts & Silane
Extraction of Platinum Group Metals
Phosphine Smoke-rings & Explosive Polymerisation Produced in Adrian's Splendid Chemistry Laboratory
Ozone & Antozone Simultaneous Formation
Ball Lightning?
Not Saint Elmo's Fire
Microscopic Californian Diamonds, Topaz & Zircons. By Silliman, 1873
Light Emission from Sodium & Potassium
Peculiar Effects of Light on Charcoal & Silver Nitrate Solution
Experiments on the Preparation & Uses of Fulminating & Detonating Compounds
Lake Peigneur Disaster - Whirlpool & Waterfall
A Selection of Fluorescent Minerals
Leidenfrost Effect - Lead Floating on Molten Iron
Spinning amalgam globules, 1852
On a New Series of Chemical Reactions Produced by Light. Tyndall 1868
Stainton Beck - Magnetic Basaltic Andesite & Fossil Beds
A Drop of Water, Mercury & Electricity. 1826 Electrowetting
Pearsall on Sparks & Phosphorescence
Berzelius Inhales Hydrogen Selenide Gas 1819
The Experiments of R.P. Williams 1888
Phosphorescent Minerals & Electrical Discharges - Pearsall 1830
Replacement of the Internal Structure of Wood by Pure Silver
Californian Crystalline Gold 1855
Influence Machines, by Wimshurst 1888
An Acoustic Rainbow
Brewster Studies Fluorite Colour Phenomenon in Weardale Crystals - 1838
Upward Lightning
1818 - Newly Discovered Variety of Green Fluorite, Uncommon Beauty, Remarkable Colour & Phosphorescent Properties
Proposal for Hydrogen Instead of Fossil Fuel 1863
Liquefaction During Japan's 2011 Earthquake
A Method of Electro-Plating Lizards
Electroluminescent Silicon Carbide Crystals in 1907
Copperas Efflorescence
Fictional Influence Machine
"Tore off both legs from the unfortunate M. Hervy"
THE DISCOVERY OF RADIUM by Marie Curie
Early Aluminium & Beryllium
Explosive Antimony
Victorian Nitrogen Laser
Martinus Van Marum (1750-1837) "discovers" a light blue gas, with the help of Mr. Cuthbertson
Hittorf's Metallic Phosphorus of 1865
Victorian Tesla Coil, with reference to a possible medieval coil
Helix Chemica
Artificial Volcanism
MR PERKINS` EXTRAORDINARY STEAM GUN OF 1824
The Transit of Venus
Edison Drug Baron
Alchemy; a Pseudo-Science
Weardale's Slitt Mine Visited by Clergyman - 1850s Green Fluorite
Edison Electrocutes Elephant
A Case of Arseniuretted Hydrogen Poisoning 1841
The Young Man's Book of Amusement
The following are archived from www.lateralscience.co.uk. They have yet to be incorporated into this blog
Fulminating Oils - Sweat of the Devil
Two sensitive high-explosive liquids & fearless scientists with missing body parts
An Excellent Van de Graaff Design from 1938
500kV and 200uA from this four foot high electrostatic generator
Experimenting with Weapons-Grade Fissile Material in the Home
The Spinthariscope - Crookes` Turbulent Luminous Sea
Fulgurites - Tubes Formed by Lightning
Darwin's observations from South America 1832
Writing Under the Shell of an Egg
How can one be without this essential life-skill?
Cloud Chambers
Apparatus to render visible the tracks of swift electrified particles such as californium fission fragments
Gas of Lucifer, the Tiger of Chemistry... Fluorine
Fluorine is the most reactive element. It's isolation proved to be one of the most difficult problems in chemistry. Horrendously poisonous, devilishly corrosive, many 19th century chemists were killed or mauled by the tiger
Colloidal Growth
The "chemical garden"
Coolidge uses 200kV Lenard Rays to Punch Holes in Rabbits Ears
Also the profuse growth of snow-white hair is induced
Getting Gold
Complete book on-line : Getting Gold, A Practical Treatise for Prospectors, Miners, & Students. J.C.F. Johnson 1898
Red Sprites & Blue Jets
Early documentation of these unusual luminous electrical discharges, which dart from thunderclouds up towards space. Chapter 7 of "Rudimentary Electricity" by Sir W. Snow Harris, third edition 1853
Pyrotechnic Magic
Unbelievably dangerous magic tricks for the magician with a death wish, from 1948
Lord Rayleigh`s Active Allotrope of Nitrogen
"A whirling cloud of brilliant yellow light"
The Most Powerful Rock Ever Found
A Belgian man in a pith helmet irradiates his gonads with seven tons of uranium ore
The Production of Fine Bluish Crystals of Aluminium Nitride
An interesting experiment using atmospheric diffusion
Atomic Hydrogen Blowtorch
In 1926 Langmuir invented this electrical dissociation blowtorch, capable of attaining 3700 degrees C. Melt tungsten, vapourise diamond!
A Miscellany of Mineralogical Articles
Some interesting articles from American Mineralogist
Forming Vessels of Gold Using Phosphorus
An ingenious, if hazardous, method of producing goldware for chemical research
Safe Breaker's Tools
A complete burglar's outfit for opening safes and strong rooms, 1929
Leyden Jars & Leyden Batteries
"...was discharged through and upon various kinds of matter, its force was quite irresistible."
"....disappeared in a cloud of blue smoke, from which fell red-hot globules of tin."
Fluorescence of CaF2 (Eu) with 337.1nm laser?
Are Glitch's observations reliable?
GOLD - an element of beauty & violence
General auriferous subjects including Fulminating & Scottish gold
The Footsteps of a Fly
Professor Hughes' flystep amplifier from 1877
"A large globe of bluish fire struck Professor Richman on the head, and he instantly expired"
Highly dangerous experimentation with lightning
The Evolution of the Zip
fascinating fastening
Strutt's Radium Clock
"This arrangement is perhaps the nearest approach yet made to perpetual motion."
Oft Overlooked Innovations Within Van de Graaff's Original Patent of 1935
A feebly conductive coating on the supporting column overcomes corona leakage at opening of sphere, & possibility of replacing charge transport belt with pumped insulating fluid
Metallic Carbonyls
Gilbert T. Morgan, O.B.E., F.R.S. describes unusual compounds such as nickel carbonyl, a colourless volatile liquid
Tesla Coil
A 5MV pressurised oil immersed bipolar tesla coil by Breit 1930
Hydrogen Metal
Hydrogen exists in a metallic state in the core of Jupiter. It has been momentarily created in the laboratory using this self destructing apparatus
Radon Collection
The collection of radon from radium salts is very perilous, because of the extreme radioactivity
Spectacular Isolation of Metallic Potassium & Sodium by Davy, 1807
"...sometimes violently exploded and separated into smaller globules, which flew with great velocity through the air in a state of vivid combustion, producing a beautiful effect of continued jets of fire."
The Laboratory of Ernest Glitch
An illustration of his apparatus for the synthesis of an organic compound
Mechanical Television
The early equipment (patented by Nipkow in 1884) was simple and consisted of rotating discs with spirally placed holes
Slickensides Galena & Other Naturally Occurring Explosives
Siberian Marekanite, natural Prince Rupert`s drops. Detonating Derbyshire Galena, Higginbotham narrowly escapes crackingwhole explosion. Lanchester Witherite, collector's dismay
Moist Conductors of the Second Class
Contact Electrification by Prof. F. Sanford, 1915
The Plate Glass Electrical Machine
Pages 61 - 65 from Rudimentary Electricity, Sir Snow Harris, 1853
Doctor Diode
Dr. Diode, Practitioner of Experimental Exotica, Unleashes the Primal Energies of the Universe in a Series of Terrific Science Japes
The Operation of a 1950's Cyclotron
"Cleaning a cyclotron is neither an easy nor a pleasant job"
Lateral Science Inverted
Antipodean anecdotes of an unusual nature
Eclectic Science Esoterica Shop
Unusual items of science & engineering interest for sale
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