Mr. Wizard's Science Secrets
By: with Willie Watson (Bruce Lindgren) and Betsy Taylor (Susan Levin)
Edition: Second Printing
Publisher: Popular Mechanics Press
Published: 1953
Place of publication: New York, New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 264
Copyright date: 1952
Table of contents: title: 3
label: Foreword by Wilbur Beauchamp; title: 5
label: {Introduction}; title: 7
label: Chapter One: Right in front of your nose (Air pressure); title: 29
label: Chapter Two: Holes in the Air (Vacuum); title: 46
label: Chapter Three: What's Burning? (Oxidation); title: 68
label: Chapter Four: What Makes an Airplane Fly? (Aerodynamics); title: Chapter Five: Why Balance Gets Lost (Gravity) 87; title: 109
label: Chapter Six: Getting Warm (Heat radiation, conduction and convection); title: 130
label: Chapter Seven: Sound Fun (Sound); title: 149
label: Chapter Eight: The Bottle, Pin and Soda-Straw Philharmonic (Musical vibration); title: 166
label: Chapter Nine: The Case of the Mysterious Magnet (Magnetism); title: 184
label: Chapter Ten: Electromagnetic Magic (Electromagnetism); title: 204
label: Chapter Eleven: Charge It! (Static electricity); title: 215
label: Chapter Twelve: The Wonders of Water (Solids, liquids, gas); title: 230
label: Chapter Thirteen: Bubbles at Work (Carbon dioxide); title: 248
label: Chapter Fourteen: The Bigest Mystery of All—You! (The human body)