The Diamond Lens

by Fitz-James O'Brien and Bayard O'Brien, Fitz James and Taylor

Book Overview

FROM a very early period of my life the entire bent of my inclinations had been toward microscopic investigations. When I was not more than ten years old, a distant relative of our family, hoping to astonish my inexperience, constructed a simple microscope for me by drilling in a disk of copper a small hole in which a drop of pure water was sustained by capillary attraction. This very primitive apparatus, magnifying some fifty diameters, presented,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1515106632
• ISBN13: 9781515106630
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 30 Pages
• Weight: 0.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"