24 May
2010
24 May
'10
5:47 p.m.
Eric Smith wrote:
Ian King wrote:
Ummm, C. L. Stong - no 'r'. I absolutely loved that column as long as
C. L. wrote it. Somewhere, I have a CD containing most or all of them.
BTW, I made the same mistake of thinking Gardner did some of the
Amateur Scientist columns too, but evidently he did not. While I'm
confessing, I thought for the longest time that Mr. Stong did those
marvelous drawings that graced his columns, but I learned later that I
was wrong about that too. I don't know which was better, the text or
the drawings, but they were both marvelous. I still think it would be
fun to build one of his "short pendulum" seismographs some day.
Later,
Charlie C.
I remember reading his "Amateur
Scientist" column in Scientific American,
Great column, but AFAICT it was never written by Martin Gardner. IIRC
most of the Amateur Scientist columns I read were written by C.L. Strong.
Eric