Every Boy's Book

Hop-scotch to hare-and-hounds, conjuring to chemistry, rabbits to rowing — the complete Victorian repertoire of things for a boy to do, set down with rules and diagrams.

Spectrum Analysis

4 pages in this part of Every Boy's Book.

Spectrum Analysis

IN the chapter upon Optics, we have already seen that, if a prism be placed against a hole in the shutters of a darkened room through which…

Spectrum Analysis: Browning

Mr. Browning has produced a lantern by which the spectrum can be thrown upon a screen for lecture purposes. It is furnished with are…

Spectrum Analysis: Bessemer

The spectroscope, besides being a wonderful detector of minute substances, and as such a great aid in the discovery of adulterations, is…

Spectrum Analysis: Spectroscope

It may easily be imagined that a delicate instrument, such as the spectroscope, might soon suffer in rough hands, and in the dust and grit…

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