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Ages 8 and up
48 page science book with materials
NEW RELEASE!
Build a working Edison Phonograph!
Build 20 different projects to explore Sound Vibrations!
- Build a working Edison style phonograph
- Record and play back your own sound recordings
- Vibrate your vocal cords and visualize your voice print
- Measure sound with a decibel meter
- Use an audiometer to test your hearing
- Hear and transmit sounds many adults cannot hear!
- Make a kazoo and a banjo
- Play a tune on water glasses
- Play the sound location game
- Transmit sounds through solids, liquids and gases
- Determine if sound waves travel through a vacuum
- Use a slinky to model sound waves
- Bounce, absorb and amplify sound waves
- Listen to your heart beat and explore how your ear works
- Discover whether fish have ears, what dogs can hear
- and how dolphins, whales and bats use sound
- Spin a sound tube to Doppler shift sound
Requires THREE "AA" batteries
Author’s Comment: This kit includes the parts for building a working Edison Phonograph.
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