Fun With Scientific Experiments
date: label: Date made
content: 1960
name: label: maker
content: Random House, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: Ira Freeman was a professor of physics at Rutgers University, and Mae Freeman an active author of beginner's books on a variety of topics. Before 1957 the couple had collaborated on such popular science books as <i>Fun With Chemistry</i> (1944) and <i>Fun With Astronomy</i> (1953).
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content: With the launch of Sputnik , the Freemans began writing books related to space travel. <i>You Will go to the Moon</i> and <i>The Sun, the Moon and the Stars</i> were both published in 1959. They also began to write scientific books for use in the home. <i>Fun With Science</i> (1958) was quickly followed by <i>Fun With Scientific Experiments</i> (1960).
label: Description
content: <i>Fun With Scientific Experiments</i> was supplemented with the "Ed-U-Cards of Science."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Sputnik
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Steven C. Turner
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2007.0041.02
label: catalog number
content: 2007.0041.02
label: accession number
content: 2007.0041
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Book: "Fun With Scientific Experiments"
label: Object Name
content: book
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1.3 cm x 26.2 cm x 19.8 cm; 1/2 in x 10 5/16 in x 7 13/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/2 in x 10 3/8 in x 7 7/8 in; 1.27 cm x 26.3525 cm x 20.0025 cm