Produced from 1897
Product number 157
Material: Unknown
Mechanism: no mechanism
Dimensions unknown
I have never been able to find this game in real life, if anyone has it please share it with me with any pictures.
The name Tom Tit was a pseudonym of Arthur Good engineer.
The Fun Science a booklet with 100 Experiments, with 115 Drawings in 1890.
This first booklet was again published in 1893 and then followed by two completely new editions.
The success factor of this series was enormous
Translations were sold in 1891 in Spain, England, the United States, Scandinavia, Russia.
There are around 130 different editions of these three volumes, released until the 1920s.
To complete the circle, one of Martin’s toys, the Le “Tom Tit” Martin number 157 was based on one of the experiments from Arthur Good and published in his book La Science Amusante as: La rotation de la Terre
Below you see on the left the drawing from the book “La Science Amusant” from Arthur Good, on the right an image from a page from the catalog of 1898 by Fernand Martin
