The mad scientists' club
by Bertrand R. Brinley · first published 1964
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The six members of the Mad Scientists' Club experiment with new projects which include investigating a strange sea monster and the theft of a valuable dinosaur egg.
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…Jules Verne, especially The Mysterious Island. Definitely some HG Wells, and definitely some Choose Your Own Adventure books (anybody remember The Cave of Time?) Glad to see A Wrinkle in Time and The Mad Scientists Club on the list. Those were awesome reads as a kid. [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Brain [2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Swift,_Jr. [3]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Investigators…
on “Books geeks should read to their kids” ↗I re-read them a few years ago, they were still fun. Combining the pioneer days feel with complicated schemes is a winning plan. Other favorite childhood series- The Mad Scientists Club and The Three Investigators.
on “R.I.P. Donald J. Sobol, Encyclopedia Brown Author, 1924-2012” ↗My friends and I had a Mad Scientists Club (inspired by the books) that we ran out of my basement and we cooked up many schemes there. Eventually we tried to get free gear from various electronics companies by writing to them as Moraine Scientific…
on “Mad Scientists' Club: The Books” ↗Sounds like the Mad Scientists Club books from when I was a kid.
on “The Thermodynamic Ice Bag” ↗