Books on Saturday Science


A quartet of books which contain most of Neil's projects. Every project has been made in his shed or backyard (and just occasionally laboratory). There are explanations  of the science, and bits of history. Some projects are easy - others are 
for advanced engineers. They are all interesting. 



Vacuum Bazookas, Electric Rainbow Jelly and 27 other Saturday Science projects. 2001

Ink Sandwiches, Electric Worms and 37 Other experiments for Saturday Science. 2003

Exploding Disk Cannons, Slimemobiles and 32 other projects for Saturday Science. 2006

The Ultimate Book of Saturday Science -the very best backyard science experiments you can do yourself.  May 2012. 

Look for the books online (eg Amazon and also http://www.grand-illusions.com/)

Other publications

Industrial Gases 1997 Springer

This remains the classic book on the multi billion dollar gas industry. Neil writes about the history, business, technology and applications of many gases. 

 "I started to read the book from the beginning and found that I was enjoying it.  In the end, I realized that for the first time in my life I had read a text book from cover to cover."           Keith Guy

"After I started work in a company making industrial gases, it took me five or six years to gain a reasonable grasp of the industry: its products, technologies, business models and people. With the aid of this book, today's new recruits can cover much of this ground in five or six days. Industrial Gases will be essential reading for people in the gases industry and an excellent read for anyone who is simply curious about where their laboratory nitrogen comes from. "                                                                Jerry Miller

Discovery of the Gluon

The gluon is a subatomic particle which glues the quarks together-really!

Neil was one of the team of high energy particle physicists who first detected the gluon at DESY in 1979.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/037026937990830X



Patents

Neil has invented lots of different things-these ones have been patented:
asbestos detector, filling aerosol cans with powder, superconducting fuse, superhot burner, multiplexed electronic bus, hovering ring toy, antijitter circuit, Xenon gas recovery system, Xenon system for heart bypass patients, ultrasonic Xenon gas analyser, tubular regulator for inside a gas cylinder, pressure sensor by squeezing a capacitor, oxygen fireworks, safer helium balloon gas, volume flow controller using feedback from a Pelton wheel, purer acetylene from a cooled cylinder. And there is a really cunning one that is pending...

Look for patents on http://www.espacenet.com