On 4/7/12 3:17 AM, Attila Kinali wrote:
On Mon, 02 Apr 2012 07:18:18 -0700
Jim Lux<[email protected]> wrote:
John Strong's book on making stuff ("procedures in experimental
physics") probably has a lot of the details (like how they put the
reflective coating on the mirror). That book is a fascinating look at
state of the art in the early part of the 20th century (you want to make
your own Geiger-Muller tubes... it's in there). Every physics/lab
tinkerer should have a copy (it's cheap in paperback from Lindsay books
(http://www.lindsaybks.com/... don't know if they still have it), or
probably Amazon, too)(just checked amazon.. $35 for used??? what are
they thinking)
Oh.. 35USD isnt that bad...
Yeah, but this is a book that's out of copyright that Lindsay was
selling for something like $6 paperback..
Lindsay Publications is an interesting company.. they do a lot of "get
old out of print book and reprint" Very much oriented towards
do-it-yourself things, industrial revolution and later. You want to
make a locomotive, starting with iron ore, in your backyard? Lindsay
has all the books on how to do it, from building a cupola furnace to
make the iron and reduce it to steel, to building your own machine tools
(sand casting is your friend), to laying out the plates for the boiler
and so forth.
I don't think there's a book on building your own rolling mill, but
that's about it.
So the Strong book fits right in. If you were working at Univ of
Chicago with Fermi, this is the book you'd have handy. The mechanical
fabrication info is great because, face it, not much has changed with
metalworking hand and low end shop tools in more than 100 years. We
might have nice numerical readouts on the mill (and maybe CNC) but as a
rookie, you still need advice on what kind of cutter to use, how many
flutes, what speed, etc.
The book "The Quantum Physics of Atomic
Frequency Standards" by Vanier and Audoin has been out of print for
a while now. You're lucky to find any used book at all (and the price
is usally in the hundreds of USD). But, you can buy the PDFs of the
scanned book from the publisher... for just 750USD (i'm not joking!)
And those PDFs are simple scans, no OCR and no correction of typos
or anything.
Fortunately, if you have access to an large university library, they might
have an account with CRC Press and you can download the PDFs for free.
Attila Kinali
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