Procedures in Experimental Physics
by John Strong
Softcover 642 pages
List Price: $25.95 SAS Member Price: $20.76
A Fantastic book loaded with construction secrets for unusual equipment! If you consider yourself an experimenter, an inventor, or a builder of unusual machines and equipment, you must have a copy of this classic text. No two ways about it.
Chapters include: laboratory glass blowing, laboratory optical work, technique of high vacuum, coating of surfaces by evaporation and sputtering, the use of fused silica, electrometers and electroscopes, Geiger counters, vacuum thermopiles and the measurement of radiant energy, optics, photoelectric cells and amplifiers, photography in the lab, heat and high temperature, notes on the materials of research, notes on the construction and design of instruments and apparatus, and molding and casting.
Learn how to blow glass and make aspirators, distillation condensers, and so on. Learn how to seal copper to glass so that you can imbed electrodes. Learn how to rough cut lens blanks from large plates of glass and then grind them into lenses on your homebuilt lens grinder. Learn how to make a parabolic telescope mirror using the standard techniques. Learn to make unusual equipment to test the finished mirror. Learn how to grind a Schmidt lens.
Build high vacuum roughing pumps, getters for creating the highest vacuums, diffusion pumps using mercury and oil and much more. Silver mirrors, even with aluminum. Manipulate fuzed quartz strands to build a microbalance sensitive down to a billionth of a gram per division. And there's so much more!
First published in 1938, this baby went through a couple of dozen printings. It's a classic. It's incredible. You should have a copy for reference if nothing else. Highly recommended. Order a copy today.
Handbook of Chemical Technology
by Rudolf Wagnert
translated by William Crookes
5 1/2 x 8 1/2 hardcover
745 pages, 332 illustrations
List Price: $33.95 SAS Member Price: $27.16
In 1872 German chemists were world famous, and Wagner's Handbook was the master reference for chemists the world over. This translation of the eighth German edition can be yours for much less that an original copy should you be able to find one. I have never seen such a comprehensive collection of incredible technological detail in a single volume anywhere else. You'll find early and/or simple ways of making chemicals, refining metal, formulating glue, paper, dyes, or just about anything else chemical in nature.
Want to refine iron ore into steel? Want to make sulfuric acid? And use it to make nitric acid? And use it to make explosives? Care to brew beer? How about a batch of whiskey? A loaf of bread? And on, and on, and on.
This is not really a cookbook. You won't find step-by-step instructions. But you will find more detail on a wider variety of basic essential processes (many of them made obsolete by more complicated processes) than in any other volume. For instance, if you're investigating the tanning of hides, making illuminating gas, charcoal, soap, or anything else, you'll find that this single volume can provide more information in less time than a search through most libraries for a month of Sundays.
This incredible classic text will definitely fill a void in your reference library. I've never seen anything like it. And it's almost a sure thing you haven't either. It's expensive, but it's worth every penny and then some. Order a copy! You won't be disappointed.
You get a whole encyclopedia in a single volume:
PARTIAL CONTENTS LIST
Division I : Chemical Metallurgy; Alloys; and Preparations Made
and Obtained from Metals.
Division II : Crude materials and products of chemical industry.
Division III : Technology of Glass, Ceramic Ware, Gypsum, Lime
& Mortar
Division IV : Vegetable Fibers and Their Technical Application
Division VI : Dyeing and Calico Printing - Aniline colors
Division VIII : Fuel and Heating Apparatus -Fuel
Chemical Demonstrations-- A Handbook for Teachers (and lovers) of Chemistry
by Bassam Z. Shakhashiri
The most complete collection of chemistry demonstrations to delight the student, teacher or anyone who loves chemistry. (And since you can buy all your chemicals and glassware from SAS, there's nothing to stop you from trying any of these delightful and educational demonstrations. Remember, email to chemical needs to Nancy and she'll figure out how to take care of them.)
In this series of practical handbooks, Prof. Bassam Z. Shakhashiri and collaborators describe a wide range of demonstrations for displaying chemical phenomena in science classrooms at all levels. The demonstrations are grouped into topical chapters, and each chapter includes an introduction which provides information about the concepts, terminology, and principles related to the demonstrations. The demonstrations themselves are divided into seven sections:
A brief description gives a succinct overview of the demonstration.
A list of materials carefully itemizes everything you need to perform the demonstration, including chemicals, laboratory equipment, and other supplies.
The procedure section provides step-by step instructions for preparation and presentation of the demonstration.
The hazards section details the specific potential dangers of every hazardous chemical used in the demonstration and, where appropriate, additional potential hazards associated with the demonstration.
The disposal section provides information about discarding or storing the chemicals used in each demonstration.
The valuable discussion section for each demonstration provides, often in considerable detail, the chemical phenomena and principles illustrated by each demonstration. If includes appropriate chemical equations and quantitative data. These analyses enhance the book's usefulness by facilitating the teacher's explanations of the phenomena that occur in the demonstrations.
A list of references details sources of additional information.
You can find the content of each book by following the links: Vol 1, Vol 2, Vol 3, Vol 4. We're selling each book to SAS members for just $27.96. Follow the above links to purchase the individual volumes. Or, you can purchase the entire set for just $99.95 by sending email to Nancy. Reserve your set today!
by Robert H. Smith
800 pages heavily illustrated
Retail: $30 SAS Member Price $22.50
Here's the best general machine shop book I've ever seen old or new. Smith brought out this book in 1915, updating it in 1925. That makes it new enough to still be of great value, but old enough to contain a many techniques that are no longer taught.
You get easy-to-read text, step-by-step instructions, and great illustrations. Modern books are prettier, but they cannot possibly do a better job of teaching.
"Advanced" covers everything you
can imagine from basic operation of a micrometer and vernier caliper,
to the testing of machine tools for accuracy. You'll learn the
different methods of turning tapers and their fitting, detailed
instructions on cutting threads, making bolts and nuts, face plates
and chucks, mounting work, turning flanges and pulleys, boring,
threading, cutting square threads bolts and nuts, cutting multiple
threads, knurling, and much more.
You'll learn about drilling jigs, eccentric turning, facing large cylinders, use of steadies and followers, external and internal grinding, and the grinding of piston rings, milling cutters, reamers, and more.
Chapter nine covers planers and their use. Learn to plane keyways, lathe beds, vises, and more.
In learning to use a milling machine you'll groove taps, flute reamers, mill T-slots in a circular table and more.
And there's so much more on everything from gear cutting to making mandrels, taps, twist drills, using indicators, sine bars and more. You'll learn how to make expensive tools that you now buy. You'll even learn how to check the accuracy of lathes, milling machines, drill presses, and lead screws, and even use of optical flats to measure to millionths of an inch!
Just about everything you can imagine in amazing detail. This baby delivers! A bargain! Worth twice the price. I recommend it highly. People rave about it! Order yourself a copy today! Lindsay.
by L. H. Martin and R.D. Hill
Paper back: 120 pages.
Retail: $12.00 SAS Member Price $8.95
If you have any interest in vacuum work, then this is a fabulous reference. I've owned a copy for several years and I refer to it frequently when I need to dip into vacuum tips. Written by two experimental physicists who wanted to give workers in the field the best practical how-to information about working with vacuums. Highly recommended! Sorry I don't have a picture this time. But for under $9, how can you go wrong? Shawn
Perterson First Guide to
the Solar System
by Jay M. Pasachoff and Wil Tirion (Illustrator)
Paper back, Illustrations : 100 color photographs.
List Price : $6.00 SAS Member Price:
$4.76
The first book the beginning astronomer needs, whether young or
old. First Guides are simplified versions of the full-size guides,
they make it easy to get started in the field.
Budding astronomers--backyard or armchair--will
learn not only where to look for the planets in the nighttime
sky but also how space missions to the planets and their moons
have increased our understanding of Earth, its atmosphere, and
the moon. More than 100 spectacular color photographs, including
views from the Hubble Space Telescope of Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn,
as well as the latest Voyager photographs of Neptune. The latest
scientific information on other solar systems and extraterrestrial
life, charts showing where to find the planets in the night sky,
and much more.
Peterson Field Guild to
the Atmosphere
By Vincent J. Schaefer
Paper Back
List Price : $20.00 SAS Member Price: $15.00
Clouds * Rain * Snow * Storms.
What more can you say? No one who reads
this book will ever experience an outdoor stroll in quite the
same way again.
How to Know the Insects
By: Bland, R. G. &. H. E. Jaques
Spiral bound; 409 pages, with 73 illustrations.
List Price: $32.50 SAS Member Price: $29.25
If you want to put together an insect collection, this is the book for you! A complete handbook for insect study and identification, with directions for collecting and mounting insects. Natural history data, basic biology, and characteristics used to identify immature insects accompany pictured keys for 29 orders and most common families. Describes selected common species or genera in most families.
I bought this book in when I was in graduate school because I needed an enjoyable diversion from physics. And now I'm hooked on the little buggers. In fact, you should see the size of the dobsonfly outside my office doorway. Wow... almost as large as my hand! Bugs here in New England are even more interesting than those in California. But I digress... If you're interested in knowing the insects in a serious way, this is definitely the book for you.