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This reminds me of a similar laser detailed in one of Scientific American's The Amateur Scientist articles from the 1970s. I grew up reading those articles, th
by kabdib 4y ago
This reminds me of a similar laser detailed in one of Scientific American's The Amateur Scientist articles from the 1970s.
I grew up reading those articles, they used to be great. You just knew a project was going to be fun when it included a "Model T spark coil" :-)
- JKCalhoun 4y agoThat was a great article in The Amateur Scientist column of SciAm. As a kid I was fascinated by these articles, wanted to build them. But alas I was too young, too poor. There was also a great infrared laser if I recall that used gold coated mirrors. I even used allowance money to buy a gold mirror from Edmund’s Scientific. I also got my mom to take me somewhere to get acrylic tubing and flat stock for the laser. Sadly, that’s as far as I got. :(
- gwbrooks 4y agoThe early ones -- make your own cloud chamber for atom splitting, X-ray machine made from vacuum tubes, big metal rocket powered by explosive powdered zinc -- were collected into a volume that's amazing. https://www.amazon.com/Scientific-American-projects-amateur-scientist/dp/B0006AWNUE/ https://www.amazon.com/Scientific-American-projects-amateur-...