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| Sleight of Hand Tricks. | |
| The Flying Dime, | 3 |
| The Flying Dime, (another method,) | 4 |
| The Beads and Strings, | 5 |
| To get a Ring out of a Handkerchief, | 5 |
| To tie a Knot in a Handkerchief which Cannot be drawn Tight, | 6 |
| The Three Cups, | 7 |
| To tie a Handkerchief round your Leg, and get it off Without Untying the Knot, | 8 |
| The Magic Bond, | 8 |
| The Old Man and his Chair, | 8 |
| To tie a Knot on the Left Wrist, without letting the right hand approach it, | 10 |
| The Magic Handcuffs, | 11 |
| To pull a String through your Button-hole, | 11 |
| The Cut String Restored, | 12 |
| The Gordian Knot, | 12 |
| The Knot Loosened, | 13 |
| To Conjure Nuts in your Ear, | 13 |
| To Crack Walnuts in your Elbow, | 14 |
| To Take Feathers out of an Empty Handkerchief, | 14 |
| The Knotted Handkerchief, | 14 |
| Houdin's Nut Trick, | 16 |
| Conjuring a Ring, | 17 |
| The Erratic Egg, | 18 |
| The Obedient Dime, | 19 |
| The Prisoner Released, | 19 |
| Advantageous Wager, | 19 |
| The Double Meaning, | 20 |
| The Three Spoons, | 20 |
| The Juggler's Joke, | 20 |
| To Cause Water and Wine to Change Places, | 21 |
| The Wizard's Wit, or Is it Possible, | 21 |
| The Toper's Stratagem, | 21 |
| The Impossible Omelet, | 21 |
| New Perpetual Rotary Motion, | 22 |
| The Miraculous Apple, | 22 |
| An Omelet Cooked in a Hat, | 23 |
| The Infallible Prophet, | 23 |
| Philosophy Cheated, | 24 |
| The Disappearing Dime, | 26 |
| The Hat and Die Trick, | 27 |
| The Penetrative Cents, | 27 |
| The Doll Trick, | 29 |
| The Flying Coins, | 30 |
| The Vanished Half Dime, | 30 |
| The Restored Document, | 30 |
| The Magic Rings, | 31 |
| The Fish and Ink Trick, | 32 |
| The Hat and Cannon Ball Trick, | 32 |
| The Dime in the Ball of Cotton, | 33 |
| The Egg and Bag Trick, | 33 |
| The Dancing Egg, | 34 |
| The Bell and Shot Trick, | 34 |
| The Burned Handkerchief Restored, | 35 |
| The Fire Eater, | 35 |
| The Egg Box Trick, | 36 |
| The Globe Box Trick, | 36 |
| The Coffee Trick, | 37 |
| The Handkerchief Trick, | 38 |
| The Magic Funnel, | 41 |
| The Magic Bottle, | 41 |
| The Bottle Trick, | 42 |
| The Magic Quarter, | 44 |
| To change a Dime to a Quarter, | 44 |
| Wyman's Gun Trick, | 46 |
| The Hatched Bird, | 46 |
| The Apple and Orange Trick, | 47 |
| A Magician's Box Explained, | 47 |
| The Enchanted Coin, | 48 |
| The Mysterious Coin, or How to Make Dollars pass through a Wine Glass, a China Plate, a Table, and fall into the Hand, | 49 |
| The Egyptian Fluids, or Impossibilities Accomplished, | 50 |
| The Magician's Snow Ball, | 51 |
| The Magnetized Cane, | 52 |
| Wyman's Mode of performing the Egg Bag Trick, | 52 |
| The Dancing Automaton, | 354 |
| The Invisible Springs, | 355 |
| The Flight of the Ring, | 356 |
| The Magic Book, | 360 |
| The Tape Trick, | 360 |
| The Knotted Thread, | 361 |
| The Transposable Pieces, | 362 |
| Tricks and Deceptions with Cards. | |
| To Make the Pass, | 55 |
| To Tell a Card by its Back, | 55 |
| The Card named without being seen, | 56 |
| The Card told by an Opera Glass, | 56 |
| The Four Kings, | 58 |
| The Four Accomplices, | 58 |
| To Tell the Card thought of, in a Circle of Ten, | 59 |
| To guess the Card thought of, | 59 |
| To tell the number of Cards by Weight, | 60 |
| Audacity, | 61 |
| The Card found at the second guess, | 61 |
| The Card found under the Hat, | 61 |
| To call the Cards out of the Pack, | 61 |
| Heads and Tails, | 62 |
| The Surprise, | 62 |
| The Revolution, | 63 |
| The Slipped Card, | 63 |
| The Nailed Card, | 63 |
| To ascertain the number of Points on three unseen Cards, | 64 |
| To tell the numbers on two unseen Cards, | 64 |
| >The Knaves and the Constable, | 64 |
| The Pairs Re-paired, | 65 |
| The Queens Digging for Diamonds, | 66 |
| The Triple Deal, | 67 |
| The Quadruple Deal, | 67 |
| The Card Discovered by the Touch or Smell, | 67 |
| The Ingenious Confederacy, | 67 |
| Hold it Fast, | 69 |
| The Charmed Twelve, | 69 |
| The Trick of "Thirty-one," | 70 |
| To tell the Names of the Cards by their Weight, | 71 |
| The Cards in the Vase, | 73 |
| The Metamorphosis, | 74 |
| To hold Four Kings, or Four Knaves in your Hand, and to Change them suddenly into Blank Cards, and then to Four Aces, | 76 |
| To Change a Card in a Person's Hand, | 76 |
| The Card in the Egg, | 77 |
| The Fifteen Thousand Livres, | 78 |
| Hints to Amateurs, | 79 |
| Cure for Troublesome Spectators, | 80 |
| To make a Card jump out of the Pack, | 357 |
| The Tell-Tale Cards, | 357 |
| The Double Dozen, | 358 |
| The Housebreakers, | 359 |
| The Magic of Chemistry. | |
| Sympathetic or Invisible Inks, | 84 |
| The Silver Tree, | 85 |
| Cleopatra's Pearls, | 86 |
| Wonderful Experiments in Combustion, | 86 |
| Mimic Rain, | 86 |
| Marine Illumination, | 87 |
| The Mimic Explosion, | 88 |
| The Shower of Fire, | 88 |
| The Magical Heat, | 88 |
| The Magic Lamp, | 89 |
| Surprising Experiments with Potassium, | 89 |
| The Water Demon, | 89 |
| A Flame produced with Ice, | 89 |
| The Chemical Chimney Sweep, | 90 |
| The Magical Illumination, | 90 |
| The Chemical Chameleon, | 91 |
| Crystallizations of Metals, | 92 |
| Beauties of Crystallization, | 93 |
| To Crystallize Camphor, | 93 |
| To do. Tin, | 94 |
| Crystals in Hard Water, | 94 |
| Varieties of Crystals, | 94 |
| A Liquid Changed to a Solid, and Heat from Crystallization, | 94 |
| Beautiful Experiment, | 95 |
| A Solid Changed to a Liquid, and intense Cold from the Liquefaction, | 95 |
| Magic of Heat, | 95 |
| Sublimation by Heat, | 96 |
| Heat Passing through Glass, | 96 |
| Metals unequally Influenced by Heat, | 97 |
| Spontaneous Combustion, | 97 |
| Inequality of Heat in Fire Irons, | 97 |
| Expansion of Metal by Heat, | 97 |
| Evaporation of a Metal, | 98 |
| A Floating Metal on Fire, | 98 |
| Ice Melted by Air, | 98 |
| Splendid Sublimation, | 98 |
| Magic Inks, | 98 |
| Chameleon Liquids, | 99 |
| The Magic Dyes, | 99 |
| Wine Changed into Water, | 99 |
| Two colorless Transparent Liquids become Black and Opaque, | 100 |
| Two colorless Fluids, Make a colored one, | 100 |
| Change of Color, by colorless Fluids, | 100 |
| To Change Blue Liquid to White, | 100 |
| Veritable "Black" Tea, | 100 |
| Restoration of Color by Water, | 101 |
| Two Liquids Make a Solid, | 101 |
| Two Solids Make a Liquid, | 101 |
| A Solid, Opaque Mass, Makes a Transparent Liquid, | 101 |
| Two cold Liquids Make a Hot one, | 101 |
| Quintuple Transmutation, | 102 |
| The Same Agent may Produce and Destroy Color, | 102 |
| Union of two Metals without Heat, | 102 |
| Magic Breath, | 102 |
| Two Bitters Make a Sweet, | 103 |
| Visible and Invisible, | 103 |
| To Form a Liquid of two Solids, | 103 |
| The Spectral Lamp, | 104 |
| Curious Change of Colors, | 105 |
| The Protean Light, | 105 |
| The Chameleon Flowers, | 105 |
| To Change the Colors of Flowers, | 105 |
| Changes of the Poppy, | 106 |
| Changes of the Rose, | 106 |
| Light changing White into Black, | 106 |
| The Visibly Growing Acorn, | 106 |
| Colored Flames, | 107 |
| Orange colored Flame, | 107 |
| Emerald Green Flame, | 107 |
| Instantaneous Flame, | 107 |
| To Cool Flame by Metal, | 108 |
| Proof that Flame is Hollow, | 108 |
| To Hold a Hot Tea Kettle on the Hand, | 108 |
| Incombustible Linen, | 108 |
| The Burning Circle, | 108 |
| Water of different Temperatures in the same Vessel, | 109 |
| Warmth of Different Colors, | 109 |
| Substitute for Fire, | 109 |
| Laughing Gas, | 109 |
| Flame from Cold Metals, | 110 |
| Phosphorus in Chlorine, | 110 |
| Magic Vapor, | 111 |
| Gas from the Union of Metals, | 111 |
| Camphor Sublimated by Flame, | 111 |
| Green Fire, | 111 |
| Brilliant Red Fire, | 112 |
| Purple Fire, | 112 |
| Silver Fire, | 112 |
| Fiery Fountain, | 112 |
| Combustion without Flame, | 112 |
| Combustion of Three Metals, | 113 |
| To Make Paper Apparently Incombustible, | 113 |
| Heat not to be estimated by Touch, | 113 |
| Flame upon Water, | 113 |
| Rose Colored Flame upon Water, | 113 |
| To Set a Mixture on Fire by Water, | 114 |
| Waves of Fire on Water, | 114 |
| Water from the Flame of a Candle, | 114 |
| Formation of Water by Fire, | 114 |
| Boiling upon Cold Water, | 114 |
| Currents in Boiling Water, | 114 |
| Hot Water Lighter than Cold, | 115 |
| Expansion of Water by Cold, | 115 |
| The Cup of Tantalus, | 115 |
| The Magic Whirlpool, | 116 |
| Artificial Fire Balls, | 117 |
| To Melt Steel as Easily as Lead, | 118 |
| To Tell a Lady if She is in Love, | 118 |
| To put an Egg in a Phial, | 118 |
| To Astonish a Large Party, | 118 |
| Magical Test Papers, | 119 |
| Infinite Divisibility, | 119 |
| Chemistry an Agent in Secret Writing, | 327 |
| To Melt a Piece of Money in a Walnut Shell, without Injuring the Shell, | 355 |
| The Pyramid of Alum, | 354 |
| Experiments in Electricity. | |
| The Rotary Tobacco Pipe, | 123 |
| The Erratic Feather, | 123 |
| The Attractive Sealing Wax, | 124 |
| The Unneighborly Balls, | 124 |
| The Electrified Paper, | 124 |
| The Sociable Feather, | 124 |
| The Eccentric Feather, | 124 |
| The Discontented Pith Ball, | 124 |
| The Dancing Bran, | 124 |
| The Electrical Cat, | 124 |
| Electrical Shock from a Sheet of Paper, | 125 |
| Light under Water, | 126 |
| Simple means of Producing Electricity, | 126 |
| Attraction and Repulsion Exhibited, | 127 |
| How to Make an Electrical Machine, | 127 |
| Conductor, | 128 |
| The Plate Electrical Machine, | 129 |
| How to Draw Sparks from the Tip of the Nose, | 129 |
| How to Get a Jar full of Electricity, | 129 |
| The Electrical Battery, | 130 |
| Dancing Balls and Dolls, | 131 |
| The Electrical Kiss, | 131 |
| Ringing Bells, | 131 |
| Working Power of Electricity, | 132 |
| The Electrified Wig, | 132 |
| Imitation Thunder Clouds, | 133 |
| The Lightning Stroke Imitated, | 133 |
| The Sportsman, | 134 |
| Experiments in Galvanism. | |
| Singular Galvanic Shock, | 135 |
| The Flash of Light, | 135 |
| The Magical Cup, | 135 |
| The Prisoner Leech, | 136 |
| The Metamorphosed Knife, | 136 |
| With Plates in Water, | 136 |
| To Make a Magnet by Galvanism, | 137 |
| Effects of Galvanism on a Magnet, | 137 |
| Change of Color by Galvanism, | 137 |
| The Galvanic Shock, | 138 |
| A Galvanic Tongue, | 138 |
| Influence of Galvanism on Porter and Ale, | 188 |
| The Galvanized Flounder, | 188 |
| Experiments in Magnetism. | |
| The Impromptu Magnet, | 139 |
| The Merry Iron Filings, | 140 |
| Test of Magnetic Power, | 140 |
| To Make Artificial Magnets, | 140 |
| How to Magnetize a Poker, | 140 |
| To Show Magnetic Attraction and Repulsion, | 141 |
| Variation of the Needle, | 141 |
| Dip of the Needle, | 141 |
| To Suspend a Needle in the Air, by Magnetism, | 141 |
| Magnetism by Hammering, | 142 |
| Power of the Electro-Magnet, | 142 |
| The Mariner's Compass, | 142 |
| To Make Artificial Magnets without the Aid of either Natural Loadstone, or Artificial Magnets, | 143 |
| The Watch Magnetized, | 144 |
| North and South Poles of the Magnet, | 144 |
| Polarity of the Magnet, | 144 |
| Magnetic Action and Reaction, | 145 |
| To Pass Magnetism through a Table, | 145 |
| The Magnetic Table, | 145 |
| Interesting Particulars Concerning the Magnet, | 145 |
| Exaggerated Magnetism, | 146 |
| The Magic of Pneumatics and Aerostatics. | |
| Weight of the Air Proved by a Pair of Bellows, | 148 |
| The Pressure of Air Shown by a Wine Glass, | 148 |
| The Pressure of Air Shown by a Glass Jar, | 148 |
| Elasticity of the Air, | 149 |
| The Air Pump, | 149 |
| To Prove that Air has Weight, | 150 |
| To Prove Air Elastic, | 150 |
| Air in the Egg, | 150 |
| The Descending Smoke, | 151 |
| Half Eagle and Feather, | 151 |
| The Soundless Bell, | 152 |
| The Floating Fish, | 152 |
| The Mysterious Circles, | 152 |
| The Diving Bell, | 154 |
| The Air Balloon, | 154 |
| How to Make an Air Balloon, | 155 |
| How to Fill a Balloon, | 156 |
| To Make Fire Balloons, | 156 |
| The Mysterious Bottle, | 157 |
| How to Make a Parachute, | 157 |
| Caoutchouc Balloons, | 157 |
| The Bacchus Experiment, | 362 |
| The Magic of Optics. | |
| Light as an Effect, | 159 |
| Refraction, | 159 |
| The Invisible Coin Made Visible, | 159 |
| The Multiplying Glass, | 160 |
| Transparent Bodies, | 160 |
| The Prism, | 160 |
| To Make a Prism, | 161 |
| Composition of Light, | 161 |
| A Natural Camera Obscura, | 162 |
| Bullock's Eyes Experiment, | 162 |
| The Camera Obscura, | 162 |
| The Magic Lantern, | 163 |
| The Camera Lucida, | 164 |
| Painting the Slides, | 164 |
| To Exhibit the Magic Lantern, | 164 |
| Effects of the Magic Lantern, | 165 |
| Tempest at Sea, | 165 |
| The Phantasmagoria, | 166 |
| Dissolving Views, | 167 |
| How to Raise a Ghost, | 167 |
| The Thaumatrope, | 168 |
| The Bird in the Cage, | 168 |
| Construction of the Phantasmascope, | 168 |
| Curious Optical Illusion, | 169 |
| Another, | 170 |
| Another, | 170 |
| The Picture in the Air, | 171 |
| Breathing Light and Darkness, | 171 |
| To Show what Rays of Light do not Obstruct each other, | 172 |
| To See through a Philadelphia Brick, | 172 |
| The Stereoscope, | 173 |
| Ocular Spectra, | 175 |
| Brilliant Water Mirror, | 175 |
| Optics of a Soap Bubble, | 176 |
| The Kaleidoscope, | 176 |
| Simple Solar Microscope, | 177 |
| Anamorphoses, | 178 |
| The Cosmorama, | 180 |
| Distorted Landscapes, | 180 |
| The Magic Coin, | 181 |
| The Magician's Mirror, | 344 |
| The Perspective Mirror, | 345 |
| The Artificial Landscape, | 348 |
| The Boundless Prospect, | 350 |
| The Enchanted Palace, | 352 |
| Tricks in Mechanics. | |
| Importance of Mechanics, | 182 |
| The Laws of Motion, | 182 |
| Experiment of the Law of Motion, | 182 |
| Balancing, | 183 |
| The Prancing Horse, | 183 |
| To Construct a Figure, which, being Placed on a Curved Surface, and Inclined in any Position, shall, when left to itself, Return to its Former Position, | 183 |
| To Make a Carriage Run in an Inverted Position, without Falling, | 183 |
| To Cause a Cylinder to Roll of its own Weight, up Hill, | 184 |
| The Balanced Stick, | 184 |
| The Chinese Mandarin, | 184 |
| To Make a Quarter Dollar Turn on its Edge on the Point of a Needle, | 184 |
| The Self-Balanced Pail, | 185 |
| To Lift a Bottle with a Straw, | 185 |
| The Dancing Pea, | 186 |
| The Toper's Tripod, | 186 |
| The Magical Snake, or the Obliquity of Motion, | 187 |
| The Bridge of Knives, | 187 |
| Sand in the Hour Glass, | 188 |
| Resistance of Sand, | 188 |
| The Magical Gyroscope, | 346 |
| Tricks in Hydraulics and Hydrostatics. | |
| The Science of Hydraulics, | 189 |
| The Fountain and Pump, | 189 |
| The Hydraulic Dancer, | 190 |
| The Syphon, | 191 |
| The Water Snail, or Archimedean Screw, | 191 |
| The Bottle Ejectment, | 192 |
| The Magic of Hydrostatics with the Ancients, | 192 |
| To Empty a Glass under Water, | 192 |
| The Mysterious Bottle, | 157 |
| Boiling upon Cold Water, | 114 |
| Currents in Boiling Water, | 114 |
| Hot Water Lighter than Cold, | 115 |
| Expansion of Water by Cold, | 115 |
| The Magic Whirlpool, | 116 |
| The Cup of Tantalus, | 115 |
| To Weigh Water without Scales, | 353 |
| More than Full, | 361 |
| Tricks in Acoustics. | |
| The Science of Acoustics, | 193 |
| Difference between Sound and Noise, | 193 |
| Visible Vibration, | 193 |
| Transmitted Vibration, | 194 |
| Double Vibration, | 194 |
| Champagne and Sound, | 194 |
| Music of the Snail, | 195 |
| The Tuning Fork a Flute Player, | 195 |
| Musical Bottles, | 195 |
| Theory of Whispering, | 195 |
| Theory of the Voice, | 196 |
| To Tune a Guitar without the Assistance of the Ear, | 196 |
| Progress of Sound, | 196 |
| To Make an Æolian Harp, | 196 |
| The Invisible Girl, | 197 |
| Magic of Acoustics with the Ancients, | 198 |
| The Secret of Ventriloquism, | 81 |
| To Show how Sound Travels through a Solid, | 198 |
| To Show that Sound depends upon Vibration, | 198 |
