Science Secrets
Don Herbert
You Can Do At Home"
There's a magic half-hour on television when
a goodly audience, composed about equally of
adults and children, shuns the cowboy movies,
puppet shows and adventures in outer space.
This is the time of Mr. Wizard's and his young
colleagues, Willy Watson and Betsy Taylor.
Theirs is a captive audienceˇ captivated by
the wonders of the everyday world which Mr.
Wizard's explains so clearly and demonstrates
so dramatically.
The wizard is Don Herbert, and his wizardry
consists in showing that science can be fun!
Now, for the first time in print, Don Herbert
allows his following to perform along with him
the best of his experiments in science.
In Mr. Wizard's Science Secrets, Don Herbert
and the Popular Mechanics Press join to bring
you a book of home experiments guaranteed to
entertain and mystify your friends, and, more
important, to give hours of fun-coated education
to your boy or girl!.
Using the simplest of materials and ingredients,
many of them now in your kitchen, you can be
your own Mr. Wizard's . . . turn wine into
water . . . pop popcorn with radiant energy . . .
blow up a balloon inside a bottle . . . cause
spectacular (but entirely safe) explosions . . .
fashion musical instruments from bottles, pins
and soda straws . . . make your own home
telegraph and telephone systems ... cause water
from a faucet to bend mysteriously . . . make
mothballs dance . . . perform hundreds more
fascinating tricks.
Mr. Wizard's Science Secrets is the perfect gift
book for children of all ages. The experiments
have been approved by educators and scientists;
but more important, they have been applauded
by youngsters themselves!
The whole family will enjoy this big, beautiful
book. Its 267 thrillpacked
pages are richly attractively
stamped. It's an ideal book to give or
to enrich your library.
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Science Secrets