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- Artifez, on 10/12/2007, -1/+56Doc Brown could probobly get some from the Lybians.
- M4tt3r, on 10/31/2007, -2/+31mirror
http://rapidshare.de/files/33904018/The_Golden_Book_of_Chemistry_Experiments.pdf.html - brunner, on 10/12/2007, -0/+28Sorry, folks. I didn't really expect this one to hit the front page of digg. I'll have my server fixed up in just a moment. Bare with me.
Thanks,
Chris - Technopundit, on 10/12/2007, -1/+25Non-availability of materials/techniques/workspaces for kids to do hands-on experimentation with chemistry, electronics and science are the reasons America has totally lost its leadership roles in industry and technology (and in many cases, even the ability to participate on a global scale).
But hey, if the planet ever needs video game players, we'll be THERE, Jack! - n8r0n, on 10/12/2007, -1/+24Just give some terrosits some old pinball machine parts.
- badangel, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18interesting book. now where would i be able to source some uranium?
- ICSU, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12I think this book will help to bring some hilarious darwin awards.
- WaterDragon, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15@ Brunner
"Sorry, folks. I didn't really expect this one to hit the front page of digg. I'll have my server fixed up in just a moment. Bare with me.
Thanks,
Chris"
HAHA You underestimated the mighty Digg Effect.
All your servers are belong to us! - Technopundit, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Just go away. Avert your eyes. Go back to your comic books.
- CamoChris, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Try here: http://unitednuclear.com/ Unfortunately I think they only ship to America, but it's good to know these places exist.
- petroK, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11its sanitized so kids won't know the right way to do the things they'll end up doing anyway (playing w/ fire, chemicals, etc)
...evolutionary acceleration is part of "THEIR" plot
(adjusts tin-foil hat) - Kontra, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Also available at 102 libraries in the US, including many public libraries:
http://worldcat.org/oclc/1157339&tab=holdings?loc=United+States#tabs - Sp0rAdiC, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9http://torrentspy.com/torrent/304495/Banned_Golden_Book_of_Chemistry_Experiments_196
http://torrentspy.com/torrent/753843/The_Golden_Book_of_Chemistry_Experiments_banned_in_1960s_PDF
http://torrentspy.com/torrent/509377/Golden_Book_of_Chemistry_Experiments_banned_in_1960
There's three different torrents for it. - Battlecry, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7You can get Americum out of a smoke detector. Is that close enough?
- capran, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Sorry, waterdragon, but I call B.S. on that conspiracy theory.
For one thing, the **NAZIS** were against smoking in the 1930s! LONG before there was a nuclear industry. Nazi scientists had shown there was a correlation between smoking and lung cancer even back then, and because of the fascist ideology of theirs, it was considered immoral and illegal to smoke, since it damaged your body...a body that belonged to the Fatherland. Hence damaging "state property."
See the History Channels' Modern Marvels show "High Tech Hitler." - Phrag, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7@Powercow - "i think they use uranium nitrate.. i always wondered how it would be for my garden."
It would work great! Until harvest time that is.... then you may have a vege-revolt on your hands. :D - stilldavid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6That kid used to be my hero growing up... didn't he join the Navy or something?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hahn for those who don't know - ICSU, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8With 100 GB of films on my disc I don't think this should bother me.
- gundammman2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I love how the link on United Nuclear's website to uranium reads:
Looking for some uranium? Click Here!
Not to mention the very suspicous looking man with the pulsating eyebrows. At least now I know where to go every time I have the urge to buy uranium, which is pretty much every day. - zadadka, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Agreed, a beautiful book...
Ignoring the "potentials" of performing these experiments and accessing some of the chemicals for the moment, it is extraordinary how such books of that era (50's / 60s) manage to make the subject interesting, if not absorbing....
I hated chemistry at school, mostly because I didn't understand in all probability, and even the white heat of burning magnesium (hopes it *is* magnesium) was not enough to get me past the dryness of the curriculum.
I'll be poring over this for days....thanks brunner.
Dugg + My#1. - Sp0rAdiC, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7True, but once it was banned by the US government and stopped being printed I doubt the publisher planned on making much more money from it.
- karn, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Too bad your most likely going to end up on a terrorist watch list for obtaining some of these chemicals
- zadadka, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Don't sell them dude....not unless you *really* need the money.
- zwilliams, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Whoa, whoa, whoa... I have this book in my parent's attic. $600 you say? Time for me to become an Amazon Seller.
- adml_shake, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Well wouldn't this apply in the same way that ROM's do? There was just a court ruling that said that you could download it and own it if there was no reasonable way for you to get a copy of the item. So I would think that a book thats been out of print for a number of years would qualify. But since it's on amazon, I'm not sure. I'm not even sure if they would consider $650 resonable.
- dbug, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6sue me!
- fishbert, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Or, alternatively, you could read the ***** article... the guy explains the legality of what he's doing.
- dbalaski, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Very cool -- I just flipped thru the book....
Ahhh Gotta love these old books -- modern stuff is so sanatized. - princessangry, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4by petroK
yes but why our our kids growing up wanting to be supermodels and actors rather then wanting to grow up to be brilliant scientists then? the media is doing this. And we are having a "babied down" culture. My uncle played around with chemistry stuff that was way wilder then imaginable, and yet he is still there, still good and the neighbrohood is still the same as it ever was even after he did experiment. the govt seriously brainwashed people. - blankman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3probably end up on the list just by downloading the book
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I have a 1st edition of this, plus several other old but great science books. I had no idea it was worth anything, so thanks for the heads up! Aside from eBook sales on eBay, the cheapest I could find it going for is $152.18 through a New Zealand seller on AbeBooks.com.
- itistoday, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Thanks!
I just finished skimming through the entire book. I really don't see why it was banned, there's nothing really bad about it, in fact it seems like a great book to give to your kids as they'll surely love the approach it takes to chemistry--a practical, do-it-yourself-at-home, see-how-awesome-chemistry-is, don't-worry-about-complicated-equations-until-end-of-book, approach. - brunner, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4@MxxCon
"because it was published in 1960, before the US copyright laws were rewritten, and because its original copyright was never renewed (yes, I checked myself), it's legal for me to share with you online."
A quote from the article you could have read before commenting. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Wordpress = dead. Don't even bother clicking the link for the article at the top.
- VinceNoir, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Hehehe... I actually had a copy of this book when I was a kid. I bought it at a library book sale for $.50. I'll have to see if it's still in my folk's basement. I remember asking my dad if we could go out and buy some supplies because I wanted to build a small reactor for the house at age 6.
- cryptocom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Something to consider...it may have been banned because of incorrect information. If an experiment was reproduced using incorrect information, injury could very easily occur.
- SIDSI, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Thanks for posting this dude, Im gonna have the best meth lab on the block now.
- edzieba, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Seeing as the copies on Amazon are almost certainly second-hand, then the original copyright holders wouldn't be getting any money from the sales anyway. If they're not producing new books to sell, they're not making money.
- vikingcoder, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@WaterDragon
Exactly. Fascists never *take* power. They are freely given it - either by a desperate or an apathetic populace. - JackHererUK, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Am i missing something, i am only on page 44 and so far it seems to be simple chemistry experiments like i used to do at school when I was 13
- InfamousX241, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3This book spawned David Hahn, you know ;)
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4there are many places you can get it online.. there is a "real" periotic table of elements
i think they use uranium nitrate.. i always wondered how it would be for my garden. - BadgerOU, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1While fertilizer with uranium in it can't help, tobacco is one plant that actually pulls uranium and lead (and polonium, I think) right out of the soil, concentrating these heavy metals slightly in their leaves. There is a bit of uranium in the soil almost everywhere -- so almost every tobacco grown anywhere gets some of these heavy metals in its leaves, helping cause cancer.
One interesting tidbit (that may not actually be true, but I think it is), if you're married to someone who's a smoker, you're exposed to more radiation than the average person, because you're sleeping next to someone every night who's lungs are radioactive! - M4tt3r, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@fishbert, no it's not just a copy and paste of the link.
I uploaded the file to rapidshare, and they're hosting the file for everyone else, not a link back to the original site. Did you even click on the link?
In turn, it becomes a "mirror". So that way the original host isn't being pounded with requests. - bbrown, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I made a mirror on my blog (I've got over 2 TB of bandwidth, so have at it):
http://www.foundontheweb.org/wp-content/uploads/2006/09/The-Golden-Book-Of-Chemistry-Experiments.pdf - zbeast, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Nice find.
- umrgregg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Awesome! Thanks for the link.
It's at my university library in circulation and not checked out. - CaptainRotundo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wow. I just saw this in Make and it brought back memories. I practically grew up on this book, the copy I had was my fathers when he was a boy. I am going to have to go to my mother's house and see if I can find my copy so my son can use it in a couple of years!
- Thor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1No ones mentioned this one point. Its this expensive only because its a collectors item. So if you find one in the attic and it looks like a peice of crap then you'll get paid accordingly.
The book looks familiar. I probably saw it in school. - Himself, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1mirror
http://rapidshare.de/files/34149158/The-Golden-Book-Of-Chemistry-Experiments.pdf
coralized:
http://www.foundontheweb.org.nyud.net:8080/wp-content/uploads/2006/09/The-Golden-Book-Of-Chemistry-Experiments.pdf -
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