I had £2.50 in my pocket and intended getting as many things as I could carry back to the car.
On arriving and wandering down the first row I passed a stack of real rubbish owned by a guy loudly encouraging people to take anything they wanted for free.
I wrestled myself through to the stack of stuff and found these books:
It's a mix of speculative discussions about the possibility of manned space flight and S/F fiction stories of the time.
It's hilarious and I intend serialising a couple of the stories with illustration here very soon.
Hobbies New Annual must date from around the same period.
Here are some of the stand-out projects:
VII: Transparent Mysteries
XI: A Home Cinema Projector
XVII: Chemical Amusements
XIX: X-Ray Photographs At Home
XXIII: Home-made Fireworks
I'll be posting all the above here in the coming weeks.
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I have similar.
In one of them it tells you...
"How to make a killing jar for butterflies" (complete with a warning not to breath the fumes oneself!)
Other hobbies of the time included "Collecting the eggs of wild birds" and "Constructing a wireless receiver". This came with the advice to stay legal by applying for a radio reception licence: "while you await a reply from the Postmaster General you can gather the parts necessary for your set."
Orlando.
Nice finds there OSM, well spotted that man!
I shall look forward to reading your excerpts in the near future :-)
It's been bugging me why the name F.J. Camm is so familiar so I looked him up on Wikipedia. Of course! He started Practical Wireless magazine among others. After blowing the dust off my shelf of ham radio books, I find I have one of his - A Beginners Guide to Radio printed in 1959. The page showing electronic component symbols used in circuit diagrams has some very exotic looking thermionic valves, but there's no transistor!
Orlando.
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