Science Books
The Principle of Relativity
Albert EinsteinMichelson-Morley Experiment.—In 1881, Michelson and Morley performed their classical experiments which undermined the whole structure of the old ether theory and thus served to introduce the new theor..
Wireless Possibilities
A. M. LowA few lines of history are desirable here. I do not mean the history controlled by the fact that William the Conqueror made many important appointments in A.D. 1066 or that Stephen was particularly bu..
Researches Chemical and Philosophical
Humphry DavyEarly experience has taught me the folly of hasty generalisation. We are ignorant of the laws of corpuscular motion; and an immense mass of minute observations concerning the more complicated chemical..
Bees, Shown to the Children
Ellison HawksIn this little book I intend to tell you something about my bees. I hope that you will be interested to read what I have written, and then perhaps, later on, when you grow up, you may keep bees, and y..
Wireless Telegraphy and Telephony Simply Explained
Alfred Powell MorganWireless telegraphy, that marvelous art which has made possible the instantaneous transmission of intelligence between widely distant parts having no apparent physical connection save that of the eart..
Fabre's Book of Insects
Mrs. Rodolph StawellMy first introduction to chemistry was less fortunate. It ended in the bursting of a glass vessel, with the result that most of my fellow-pupils were hurt, one of them nearly lost his sight, the lectu..
An Attempt to Investigate the Seat of Animal Life
Henry CurtisSome physiologists, and those of no mean note, have considered the operations of the human frame as a circle of functions governed by mechanical organic laws, as we discover in an hydraulic machine, o..
Life Among the Butterflies
Vance RandolphThe body of a butterfly, like that of any other insect, is divided by constrictions into three parts: the head, the thorax, and the abdomen. The head carries the eyes, antennae, and mouth parts; the t..