Farmer Buckley's Exploding Trousers: & other events on the way to scientific discovery by New Scientist

Farmer Buckley's Exploding Trousers: & other events on the way to scientific discovery

New Scientist

214 pages first pub 2016 (editions)

fiction science informative mysterious slow-paced
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In August 1931, New Zealand farmer Richard Buckley hit the local headlines - or rather his trousers did. One minute they were drying in front of the fire; the next there was a huge blast and a ball of flames. Farmer Buckley's trousers had exploded...

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