Still a workable book The Threshold of Science: A Variety of Simple and Amusing Experiments Illustrating Some of the Chief Physical and Chemical Properties of Surrounding Objects, and the Effects Upon Them of Light and Heat
Charles Romley Alder Wright FCS, FRS (7 September 1844 – 25 June 1894) was an English lecturer in chemistry and physics researcher at St. Mary's Hospital Medical School in London, England. He was a founder of the Royal Institute of Chemistry. Alder Wright developed hundreds of new opiate compounds and was the first person to synthesize diamorphine (heroin), in 1874. He also discovered AlSb (aluminium antimonide). In addition to research papers on a wide variety of topics, Wright published several books, including one to interest young readers in The Threshold of Science: a Variety of Simple and Amusing Experiments.