"Science Gossip"
Anon
Genre: | Regular Feature, Announcement, Spoof |
Subjects: | Military Technology, Ornithology, Animal Behaviour, Patenting, Electricity, Manufactories, Supernaturalism, Spectroscopy |
Lists various items of scientific news which involve puns on technical terms. For example, 'The proper thing to use with gun-cotton is shot silk', and 'A Scientific Ghost-story will shortly appear in fortnightly numbers, founded on Spectrum Analysis'. |
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