Transcriber’s Notes:
Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_), text enclosed
by equal signs is in bold (=bold=), and _{} encloses subscripted
material.
The whole number part of a mixed fraction is separated from the
fractional part with -, for example, 2-1/2.
Additional Transcriber’s Notes are at the end.
How to Become a Scientist.
GIVING
Interesting and Instructive Experiments
IN
CHEMISTRY,
Mechanics, Acoustics
AND
PYROTECHNICS.
ALSO CONTAINING
MATHEMATICAL PROBLEMS and PUZZLES
BOTH
USEFUL AND AMUSING.
NEW YORK:
FRANK TOUSEY, Publisher,
24 UNION SQUARE.
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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1900, by