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Endless Amusement
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ENDLESS. AMUSEMENT
To produce Fire by the Mixture of two cold Liquids
The Exploding Bubble
The Magic Picture
Artificial Lightning
Artificial Thunder
Another way
Money augmented by an Optical Illusion
Three objects discernible only with both Eyes
To construct the Camera Obscura
The Magnifying Reflector
To tell by a Watch Dial the Hour when a Person intends to rise
A person having an even Number of Shillings in one Hand, and an odd Number in the other, to tell in which hand the odd or even Number is
Secret Correspondence
Another Way
Secret Correspondence by Music
The Magic Vessel
Artificial Earthquake and Volcano
Artificial Illuminations
The Cameleon Spirit
Invisible Ink
Another
Another
Invisible Gold Ink
Invisible Silver Ink
Invisible Yellow Ink
Invisible Red Ink
Invisible Green Ink
Another Invisible Green Ink
Invisible Violet Ink
Invisible Grey Ink
A Secret Correspondence by means of Invisible Ink
The Mysterious Writing
The Restored Flowers
Winter changed to Spring
The Silver Tree
The Lead Tree
To produce beautiful Fire-works in Miniature
Artificial Rain and Hail
Illuminated Writing
A Lamp that will burn Twelve Months without replenishing
Curious Transcolorations
Another
Another
Curious Account of the Electric Effects of a Russian Climate
Astonishing Power of Steam
Account of the Wonderful Effects of two immense Burning-Glasses
Fulminating Powder
A more powerful fulminating Powder
To make the Phosphorus Match Bottles
To make a Ring suspend by a Thread, after the Thread has been burned
To form Figures in relief on an Egg
To give a ghastly Appearance to Persons in a Room
To change Blue to White
Magical Transmutations
To make Pomatum with Water and Wax
Iron transformed into Copper
Iron transformed into Silver
Chemical Illuminations
The Philosophical Candle
To make the appearance of a Flash of Lightning, when any one enters a Room with a lighted Candle
To melt Iron in a Moment and make it run into Drops
Never-yielding Cement
To remove Stains and Blemishes from Prints
To so fill a Glass with Water, that it cannot be removed without spilling the whole
Two Figures, one of which blows out and the other re-lights a Candle
A vessel that will let Water out at the Bottom, as soon as the Mouth is uncorked
A Powder which catches Fire when exposed to the Air
Fulminating Gold
To melt a piece of Money in a Walnut-shell, without injuring the shell
A Liquid that Shines in the Dark
Luminous Liquor
The changeable Rose
Golden Ink
Another way
White Ink, for Writing on black Paper
To construct Paper Balloons
Water-Gilding upon Silver
A Water which gives Silver a Gold Colour
To make an old Gold Chain appear like new
To give Silver the Colour of Gold
A Water to give any Metal a Gold Colour
Another way
To give Silver-plate a Lustre
The Fiery Fountain
To take Impressions of Coins, Medals, &c
To tell a Person any Number he may privately fix on
To tell any Number a Person has fixed on, without asking him any Questions
The Lamp Chronometer
The Phial of the Four Elements
The Magic Bottle
The Globular Fountain
The Hydraulic Dancer
A Person having put a Ring an one of his Fingers, to name the Person, the Hand, the Finger, and the Joint on which it is placed
The Water Sun
The Magical Cascade
The illuminated Fountain, that plays when the Candles are lighted, and stops when they are extinguished
A Fountain which acts by the heat of the Sun
Inflammable Phosphorus
The Magical Mirrors
To cause a brilliant Explosion under Water
Fulminating Mercury
The Iron Tree
To make any Number divisible by Nine, by adding a Figure to it
Arithmetical Squares
To find the Difference between two Numbers, the greatest of which is unknown
The Boundless Prospect
To set Fire to a combustible Body by Reflection
To find the Number of Changes that may be rung on Twelve Bells
To find how many square Yards it would require to write all the Changes of the Twenty-four Letters of the Alphabet, written so small, that each Letter should not occupy more than the hundredth part of a square Inch
The Enchanted Bottle
The Solar Magic Lantern
The Artificial Rainbow
The Æolipiles
The Talking Busts
The Inanimate Oracle
The Solar Concerto
CURIOUS EXPERIMENTS WITH THE MAGIC LANTERN
Of Painting the Glasses
To represent a Storm at Sea
To produce the appearance of a Spectre on a Pedestal in the middle of a Table
The Artificial Landscape
To draw, easily and correctly, a Landscape, or any other Object, without being obliged to observe the Rules of Perspective, and without the Aid of the Camera Obscura
Illuminated Prospects
EXPERIMENTS IN MAGNETISM
The Magnetic Wand
The Mysterious Watch
The Magnetic Dial
The Magnetic Cards
The Magnetic Orrery
The Magic Verse
INTERESTING EXPERIMENTS WITH THE AIR-PUMP
Bottles broken by Air
Glass broken by Air
The Hand fixed by Air
Water boiled by Air
Aërial Bubbles
The floating Stone
Withered Fruit restored
Vegetable Air-Bubbles
The Mercurial Wand
The Magic Bell
Feathers heavier than Lead
The self-moving Wheel
The Artificial Halo
The Mercurial Shower
Magic Fountain
The Exploded Bladder
The Cemented Bladder
Cork heavier than Lead
The animated Bacchus
The Artificial Balloon
Curious Experiments with a Viper
Experiments with Sparrows
AMUSING EXPERIMENTS IN ELECTRICITY
The Animated Feather
The Candle lighted by Electricity
Candle Bombs
The Artificial Spider
The Miraculous Portrait
The Cup of Tantalus
Magical Explosion
Artificial Earthquake
The Magic Dance
The Electrical Fountain
The Electric Kite
The Magic Chase
The Unconscious Incendiary
The Inconceivable Shock
The Miraculous Luminaries
The Fiery Shower
The Illuminated Vacuum
The Illuminated Cylinder
The Electric Aurora Borealis
The Electrical Orrery
The Electrified Cotton
The Electric Sparks
Dancing Balls
The Leyden Phial
The Self-moving Wheel
Resin ignited by Electricity
Spirits ignited by Electricity
The Electric Balloon
The Illuminated Water
The Electrified Ball
Illuminated Phosphorus
The Luminous Writing
The Electric Explosion
Electrified Air
Another Electric Orrery. (See page 92.)
The Electric Ball
To spin Sealing-wax into Threads by Electricity
The Electrified Camphor
AMUSEMENTS WITH CARDS
To tell the Number of Points on Three Cards, placed under Three different Parcels of Cards
The Ten Duplicates
To tell how many Cards a Person takes out of a Pack, and to specify each Card
A Hundred different Names being written on the Cards, to tell the particular Name any Person thought of
Several different Cards being fixed on by different Persons, to name that on which each Person fixed
To name the Rank of a Card that a Person has drawn from a Piquet Pack
To tell the Amount of the Numbers of any two Cards drawn from a common Pack
To tell the Amount of the Numbers of any Three Cards that a Person shall draw from the Pack
The Divining Card
The Four Confederate Cards
The Numerical Cards
The Card found out by the Point of the Sword
The Card hit upon by the Guess
The Card changed by Word of Command
The Three Magical Parties
The Magic Vase
The Divining Perspective Glass
The Card in the Ring
The Card in the Mirror
The Card in the Opera Glass
To separate the two Colours of a Pack of Cards by one Cut
The Metamorphosed Cards
To discover the Card which is drawn, by the Throw of a Die
To tell the Number of the Cards by their Weight
The Four Inseparable Kings
To change the Cards which several Persons have drawn from the Pack
The Card discovered under the Handkerchief
The Convertible Aces
To tell the Card that a Person has touched with his Finger
The Card in the Pocket-book
The Card in the Egg
The Card discovered by the Touch or Smell
The Inverted Cards
The Transmuted Cards
The Convertible Cards
Opaque Bodies seemingly Transparent
The Deforming Mirrors
The Magic Tube
The Magician's Mirror
The Perspective Mirror
Gunpowder Exploded by Reflection
The Igniting Mirrors
The Armed Apparition
The Phantom
The Distorting Mirror
Water colder than Ice
Exploding Salt
Dioptrical Paradox
To show the Spots in the Sun's Disk by its Image in the Camera Obscura
The Diagonal Opera Glass
To observe an Eclipse of the Sun, without Injury to the Eye
The Burnt Writing restored
The Opaque Box made Transparent
The Transposable Pieces
The Penetrative Guinea
To make Pictures of Birds with their Natural Feathers
The Art of Bronzing
Method of taking the Impression of Butterflies on Paper
To soften Horn
To make Moulds of Horn
To cast Figures in Imitation of Ivory
To extract the Silver out of a Ring that is thick gilded, so that the Gold may remain entire
To soften Iron or Steel
To take a Plaster-of-Paris Cast from a Person's Face
Curious Experiment with a Glass of Water
To make Artificial Coruscations
Another Method
To produce Fire from Cane
To make an Eolian Harp
To show the Pressure of the Atmosphere
Subaqueous Exhalation
Remarkable Properties in certain Plants
Flowers curiously affected by the Sun and the Weather
Easy Method of obtaining Flowers of different Colours from the same Stem
A Luminous Bottle, which will show the Hour on a Watch in the Dark
To make Luminous Writing in the Dark
The Sublimated Tree
Easy and curious Methods of foretelling Rainy or Fine Weather
Contrivance for a Watch Lamp, perfectly safe, which will show the Hour of the Night, without any trouble, to a person lying in Bed
Curious Experiment with a Tulip
The Travelling of Sound experimentally proved
To produce Metallic Lead from the Powder
To diversify the Colours of Flowers
How far Sound travels in a Minute
Easy Method of making a Rain Gauge
To make beautiful Transparent coloured Water
Curious Experiment on Rays of Light
The Power of Water
The Pressure of Water
Refraction of Light
Wonderful Nature of Lightning
To show that the White of Eggs contains an Alkali
Two Inodorous Bodies become very Pungent and Odorous by Mixture
Interesting Experiment for the Microscope
The Travelling of Light
Calculation of the Mass of Water contained in the Sea
Different Degrees of Heat imbibed from the Sun's Rays by Cloths of different Colours
Alternate Illusion
Alarum
Musical Cascade
Writing on Glass by the Rays of the Sun
To produce the Appearance of a Flower from its Ashes
Imitative Fire-works
To represent Cascades of Fire
The Oracular Mirror
The Hour of the Day or Night told by a suspended Shilling
Of Lightning, and the best Method of guarding against its mischievous Effects
The Leech, a Prognosticator of the Weather
The Awn of Barley an Hydrometer
The Power of Water when reduced to Vapour by Heat
Artificial Memory
To procure Hydrogen Gas
To fill a Bladder with Hydrogen Gas
Exploding Gas Bubbles
Another Method
Singular Impression on the visual Nerves by a Luminous Object
Curious Effects of Oil upon Water, and Water upon Oil
Another curious Experiment with Oil and Water
Remarkable Effects on the visual Nerves, by looking through differently-coloured Glasses
Weather Table
A COMPLETE. SYSTEM OF PYROTECHNY;
OR THE. ART OF MAKING FIRE-WORKS
Of Sulphur, or Brimstone
Of Saltpetre
To pulverize Saltpetre
To prepare Charcoal for Fire-works
Of Gunpowder, &c
How to meal Gunpowder, Brimstone, and Charcoal
Spur Fire
To make Touch Paper
Of such Ingredients as show themselves in Sparks, when rammed into choked Cases
Of the Method of mixing Compositions
To make Crackers
To make Squibs and Serpents
Sky-Rockets
LENGTH OF ROCKET-STICKS
ROCKETS OF FOUR OUNCES
ROCKETS OF EIGHT OUNCES
ONE POUND
SKY-ROCKETS IN GENERAL
LARGE SKY-ROCKETS
ROCKETS OF A MIDDLING SIZE
ROCKET STARS. WHITE STARS
BLUE STARS
VARIEGATED STARS
BRILLIANT STARS
COMMON STARS
TAILED STARS
STARS OF A FINE COLOUR
RAINS. GOLD RAIN FOR SKY-ROCKETS
SILVER RAIN
WHEELS
SLOW FIRE FOR WHEELS
DEAD FIRE FOR WHEELS
BALLOON CASES
MORTARS
BALLOONS ILLUMINATED
BALLOONS OR SERPENTS
Aigrettes
FIRE-PUMPS, OR ROMAN CANDLES
CHARGE
AN ARTIFICIAL EARTHQUAKE
Chinese Fountains
The Dodecahedron,
Stars with Points
Fixed Sun with a transparent Face
DETONATING WORKS. WATERLOO CRACKERS
DETONATING GIRDLE
DETONATING BALLS
THE DETONATING TAPE
DETONATING CARDS
AQUATIC FIRE-WORKS
Water-Rockets
Pipes of Communication for Water
Horizontal Water-Wheels
Water-Mines
Fire Globes for the Water
Odoriferous Water-Balloons
A Sea-fight with small Ships and a Fire-ship
To fire Sky-Rockets under Water
Neptune in his Chariot
Swans and Ducks in Water
Water Fire-Fountains
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