making science equipment

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great for improv skills!

http://icase.unl.edu/guidboks/guidebok.htm

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The Scientific American Book of Projects for the Amature Scientist, C.L. Strong

also of note:

Build it Yourself Science Laboratory, Raymond E. Barrett

700 Science Projects for Everyone - originally published as: UNESCO Source Book for Science Teaching

Illustrated Handbook of General Science Teaching Aids by John Alusik

for those that want to get serious, or perhaps just disected the family appliences as a youth:

Building Scientific Apparatus; A Practical Guide to Design and Construction, by J. Moore, C. Davis and M. Coplan, 2nd edition.
(this book is technical)

for the more adventurous, (or bored), sites that contain instructions for making illicit drugs sometimes have interesting ideas for improvising lab equipment.

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