I recommended looking at the old _Amateur Scientist_ columns a few weeks
ago for a student looking for wind tunnel designs. (These are from the
once-great Scientific American magazine).

I recently got a CD from a place called Surplus Shack that has
basically ALL the old Amateur Scientist columns on it. Some of it is a
bit dated (like you'll want to use PICs rather than vacuum tubes), but
there is a lot of great info on glassblowing, lasers, high vacuum
systesms, particle accelerators you can build in your basement, etc.
etc. It's all gotten a bit much with liability and waning interest
these days, and the better columns were mostly conducted by CL Stong who
actually built most of the projects, few of the columns after 1972 or so
were all that impressive. (there's also a CD of shovelware
demos included but I have not played with that yet).

All the illustrations are inluded in high and low res, and the text
is HTML, not just scanned. It was originally something like $90 but
this place had it for just $39+ shipping, and I've since found Amazon
now carries it for exactly the same price. If you are interested in
this sort of tinkering and learning, this is a really excellent
resource. There was a book produced, but it isn't as up to date as
this and goes for a premium when you can find it used. I had it years
ago and have been searching used book stores for ages trying to
find another copy.

Anyway, I'd highly recommend this CD if your interests include any
of these areas.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=speffcom-20&creative=4985&cam
p=993&link_code=st1&path=ASIN/097034760X

The above link will take you to Amazon (and I'll get a small
kickback if you order it from there) or go to Amazon or your
and search for it, or search for Surplus Shack. Any way it's worth
it.

Best regards,



P.S. Here's the search I did for "Wind Tunnel"



Search Results

Found 24 relevant articles

November 1997 Caught in a Wind Tunnel
   54% estimated relevance

March 1993 Flight-Testing Fruit Flies
   51% estimated relevance

July 1972 An Amateur Makes a Wind Tunnel to Study the Vortexes That Form
Around a Cylinder
   45% estimated relevance

October 1966 How to Build a Wind Tunnel That Achieves Supersonic Speeds
with a Vacuum System
   43% estimated relevance

April 1953 About a Small Wind Tunnel, Cloud Chambers and "Primitive"
Techniques of Measurements
   34% estimated relevance

May 1955 How to Make an Aerodynamic Smoke Tunnel and More about the Puzzle
of the 12 Balls
   29% estimated relevance

October 1955 Some Simple Apparatus for Studying the Dynamics Airflow and
Waterflow
   29% estimated relevance

April 1969 The Lore and Aerodynamics of Making Flying Kites
   28% estimated relevance

Supplement: Measuring the Wind with Hot Metal
   28% estimated relevance

October 1971 Experiments with Wind: a Pendulum Anemometer and Miniature
Tornadoes
   27% estimated relevance

Feburary 1978 Introducing the Musha, the Double Lozenge and a Number of
Other Kits to Build and Fly
   26% estimated relevance

August 1965 How to Measure Raindrops, Make Snowflakes, and Simulate
Subatomic Particle Scattering
   19% estimated relevance

April 1957 On Testing Boat Designs Without a Towing Tank, and Skipping
Stones on the Beach
   19% estimated relevance

May 1971 Schlieren Photography Is Used to Study the Flow of Air Around
Small Objects
   19% estimated relevance

August 1975 Graphs That Predict When Planets Will Line Up with Another
Planet or the Sun
   15% estimated relevance

April 1954 On a Well-Made Refracting Telescope and Testing Airplanes in the
Bathtub
   13% estimated relevance

September 1953 About Sundials and the Cyclotron, the Latter Built By a
Group of Bold High School Boys
   12% estimated relevance

Feburary 1988 The Feathery Wake of a Moving Boat Is a Complex Interference
Pattern
   12% estimated relevance

August 1967 A Gauge to Measure Tiny Changes in Gas Pressure; Growth
Substances in Plants
   11% estimated relevance

Feburary 1964 How to Photograph Air Currents in Color and Build an Accurate
Foucault Pendulum
   10% estimated relevance

Feburary 1973 Molecular Models and an Interferometer That Can Be
Constructed At Modest Cost
   10% estimated relevance

August 1974 An Air Flash Lamp Advances Color Schlieren Photography
   10% estimated relevance

June 1957 About the Activities and the Trials of Amateur Rocket Experimenters
   8% estimated relevance

March 1980 Stalking the Fossil Trilobite, Crinoid, and Seed Fern in Ohio
   8% estimated relevance


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