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Wow, time flies. I scanned this book more than 12 years ago. Here's my original announcement on the Sciencemadness forum: https://www.sciencemadness.org/whispe
by sciencemadness 4y ago
Wow, time flies. I scanned this book more than 12 years ago. Here's my original announcement on the Sciencemadness forum:
https://www.sciencemadness.org/whisper/viewthread.php?tid=2442&page=2#pid173695 https://www.sciencemadness.org/whisper/viewthread.php?tid=24...
I'm glad that it was so inspirational for you! If this is the only thing you've ever seen from sciencemadness, you should also check out the other books in the library:
http://library.sciencemadness.org/library/index.html http://library.sciencemadness.org/library/index.html
It's kind of a grab-bag of old scanned texts that I compiled from random third party sources in the earlier days of the web plus those that I scanned personally.
Also see the Los Alamos Technical Reports collection if you might be interested in oddball chemistry, physics, and material science publications from America's premiere nuclear weapons laboratory:
http://www.sciencemadness.org/lanldocs.html http://www.sciencemadness.org/lanldocs.html
Like "Chemistry of Uranium and Plutonium" -- containing both theoretical and practical documentation for the handling, processing, and analysis of plutonium in the laboratory:
http://library.sciencemadness.org/lanl1_a/lib-www/la-pubs/00419524.pdf http://library.sciencemadness.org/lanl1_a/lib-www/la-pubs/00...
Or "Foundations of Radiation Hydrodynamics" if your role in a nuclear weapons complex is downstream from that of the chemists and metallurgists:
http://library.sciencemadness.org/lanl1_a/lib-www/books/00418557.pdf http://library.sciencemadness.org/lanl1_a/lib-www/books/0041...
- avmich 4y agoSo I assume fo "Ignition!" you did the OCR and then reading the text? The font set to Baskerville, and chemical formulas drawn as ASCII, with = and # as double and triple bonds - or there were better solutions? People do translations of the book and it's usually highly appreciated by those who doesn't read English. Excellent book. The introduction by Asimov is also awesome.
- sciencemadness 4y agoThe OCR text beneath the page image is there to make it easier to search. I used ABBYY FineReader for the OCR process. I didn't do any manual reviewing or correcting of the automatically generated OCR text. I ran additional scripted tools of my own to optimize the PDF that I generated from FineReader for small file size.