The young man's book of amusement : containing the most interesting and instructive experiments in various branches of science. To which is added all the popular tricks and changes in cards, [...]. Halifax : Milner, 1848

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PDF Titelblatt
PDF Eatable Candle Ends
PDF 2 Fulminating Powder
PDF 2 Another way
PDF 2 A more powerful Fulminating Powder
PDF 3 To prepare Fulminating Silver
PDF 4 The detonating Candle
PDF 4 To make an artificial Spider, containing Fulminating Silver
PDF 4 Fulminating Bombs
PDF 5 Chemical change in a fair Lady's Complexion
PDF 5 To Illuminate the Surface of the Water
PDF 6 The Well of Fire
PDF 6 To produce fire by the mixture of two cold Liquids
PDF 7 The exploding Bubble
PDF 7 To give a Person a Supernatural Appearance
PDF 8 The Magic Picture
PDF 9 Beautiful Phenomena
PDF 9 Artificial Lightning
PDF 9 To split a Piece of Money into two Parts
PDF 10 Artificial Thunder
PDF 10 Another way
PDF 11 The Tumbling Egg
PDF 11 Money augmented by an Optical Illusion
PDF 12 To set a combustible Body on Fire, by the Contact of Water
PDF 12 To construct the Camera Obscura
PDF 13 The Magnifying Reflector
PDF 14 To separate two Liquors which have been mixed together
PDF 14 To tell by a Watch Dial, the Hour when a Person intends to rise
PDF 15 Sympathetic Ink
PDF 16 The Magic Oracle
PDF 17 Invisible Ink
PDF 17 The Magical Tea-Spoon
PDF 18 Invisible Correspondence
PDF 18 Beautiful Ornament for a Room
PDF 19 To make Fire Bottles
PDF 20 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
PDF 21 Two cold Liquids when mixed become boiling hot
PDF 21 The Silver Tree
PDF 21 The Lead Tree
PDF 22 To produce beautiful Fire Works in miniature
PDF 23 To procure Nitrous Oxide, or Laughing Gas
PDF 24 To inhale the Laughing Gas
PDF 24 Artificial Rain and Hail
PDF 25 Metallic Vegetations
PDF 25 To make a Ring suspend by a Thread, after the Thread has been burned
PDF 25 Light produced by Sugar
PDF 26 To give a ghastly Appearance to Persons in a Room
PDF 26 To change Blue to White
PDF 26 To break a Stick, placed on two Glasses, without breaking the Glasses
PDF 27 Magical Transmutations
PDF 27 To make artificial Coral for Grottoes
PDF 28 Chemical Illuminations
PDF 28 To melt Lead in a piece of Paper
PDF 28 Artificial Illuminations
PDF 30 To set fire to Spirits of Wine by the Rays of the Sun
PDF 30 The Philosophical Candle
PDF 31 To make the Appearance of a Flash of Lightning, when any one enters a Room with a lighted Candle
PDF 31 Two liquids when mixed form almost a solid Mass
PDF 31 To melt Iron in a moment, and make it run into Drops
PDF 32 To make a Bird seem as Dead
PDF 32 To so fill a Glass with Water that it cannot be removed without spilling the whole
PDF 33 To make an object which is too near the Eye to be distinctly perceived, to be seen in a distinct manner, without the interposition of any Glass
PDF 33 New Camera Lucida
PDF 33 Two Figures, one of which blows out and the other re-lights a Candle
PDF 34 An Optical Game
PDF 34 A Vessel that will let Water out at the bottom, as soon as the mouth is uncorked
PDF 35 To produce great Heat by presenting two Solids to each other
PDF 35 A Powder which catches Fire when exposed to the Air
PDF 36 To construct and inflate a small Balloon
PDF 37 To melt a piece of Money in a Walnut-shell, without injuring the Shell
PDF 37 A Method of obtaining Natural Flowers in Winter
PDF 38 To find whether any given Year is Leap Year or not
PDF 38 A liquor that shines in the dark
PDF 39 Three jealous Husbands with their Wives, [...]
PDF 40 The Hydraulic Dancer

PDF 40 [Illustration]

PDF 41 The Fiery Fountain
PDF 41 A person having put a Ring on one of his Fingers, [...]
PDF 43 To construct Paper Balloons
PDF 43 Two merry Companions [...]
PDF 44 The Magic Bottle
PDF 45 Two numbers, the one even and the other odd, [...]
PDF 46 The Globular Fountain
PDF 46 The Water Sun
PDF 47 To cause a brilliant Explosion under Water
PDF 47 The Magical Mirrors
PDF 48 Tree of Crystals
PDF 48 Beautiful Experiment
PDF 49 Simple Barometer
PDF 50 Vegetable Chimney Ornaments
PDF 50 To stain Wood Black
PDF 51 To find the number of Changes that may be rung on Twelve Bells
PDF 52 The Enchanted Bottle
PDF 52 Cheap Hydrometer
PDF 53 Powerful Musical Instrument
PDF 53 Another Cheap Hydrometer
PDF 54 Very beautiful Artificial Petrifactions
PDF 54 Singular Illusion with the Fingers
PDF 55 To lay Prints on the inside of Glass Globes
PDF 55 To take a Shilling out of a Handkerchief
PDF 56 To cause a Five Pound Note to be all in a flame, without hurting it
PDF 56 How to hear the Beating of a Watch at twenty or thirty yards distance
PDF 57 How to prepare a Candle that the strongest Wind will not blow out
PDF 57 To put Ale and Water in a Glass without mixing them
PDF 57 To break an Iron Bar as big as your arm
PDF 58 Curious effects of Oil upon Water
PDF 59 To cut and tear into Pieces a Handkerchief, [...]
PDF 60 To keep a Snow-ball all Summer in a perfect state
PDF 60 Easy Method of Purloining without Discovery
PDF 62 Another way
PDF 62 The Transposable Pieces
PDF 63 The Lamp Chronometer
PDF 64 To diversify the Colours of Flowers
PDF 65 To make a shilling turn upon its edge on the point of a needle

PDF 65 [Illustration]

PDF 66 To recover a Fly after being drowned several hours
PDF 66 To put a Ring through your Cheek, [...]
PDF 67 The Aquatic Dancers

PDF 67 [Illustration]

PDF 68 To lock a Padlock upon your Cheek
PDF 69 Experiments in Magnetism

PDF 69 To Find the Poles of a Magnet
PDF 70 To shew the effect of the Magnet Poles on each other
PDF 70 The Magnetic Wand
PDF 71 The Learned Swan
PDF 71 The Mysterious Watch
PDF 72 Concealed Money
PDF 73 To suspend a Needle in the Air by means of the Magnetic Fluid
PDF 73 The Magnetical Table

PDF 74 Chemistry

PDF 74 To Procure Hydrogen Gas
PDF 75 To Fill a Bladder with Hydrogen Gas
PDF 75 Pure Flame
PDF 76 Inflamed Soap Bubbles
PDF 76 Exploding Gas Bubbles
PDF 77 To Procure Oxygen Gas
PDF 77 To Exhibit the Combustion of Charcoal in Oxygen Gas
PDF 78 To Exhibit the Combustion of Phosphorus in Oxygen Gas
PDF 78 Interesting Experiment on Glow-Worms
PDF 78 To Shew the Combustion of Zine in Oxygen Gas
PDF 79 Another way
PDF 79 Astonishing Heat of the Flame of Oxy-hydrous Gas
PDF 80 Instantaneous Light Apparatus
PDF 81 An Apparent Impossibility
PDF 81 To Produce a Scarlet Pattern on a Black Ground
PDF 82 Illustration of the Art of Calico Printing [...]
PDF 82 Method of making a Cheap Aromatic Vinegar, [...]
PDF 83 The Mode of Constructing and Filling Balloons
PDF 85 Artificial Volcano
PDF 85 To make Beautiful Transparent Coloured Water

PDF 86 Optics

PDF 98 Electricity

PDF 99 Conductors or Non-Electrics
PDF 100 Electrics or Non-Conductors
PDF 101 Electrical Machine

PDF 101 [Illustration]

PDF 102 Plate Electrical Machine
PDF 103 The Leyden Phial
PDF 104 Electrical Automata
PDF 104 Electric Spider
PDF 104 To Exhibit Electrical Attraction on a Number of Objects at once
PDF 105 To shew Electric Attraction and Repulsion

PDF 105 [Illustration]

PDF 106 Curious Peal of Bells
PDF 107 The Electric Aurora Borealis
PDF 108 The Animated Feather
PDF 109 The Candle Lighted by Electricity
PDF 109 Electrical Air Cannon
PDF 110 Artificial Earthquake
PDF 111 Magical Explosion
PDF 111 Method of receiving the Electrical Shock from a Cat
PDF 111 Another Electrical Experiment
PDF 112 The Electrical Fountain
PDF 112 To pierce a Card [...] by Electricity
PDF 113 Electric Chase
PDF 114 Another
PDF 115 The Unconcscious Incendiary
PDF 116 The Electrical Mill

PDF 116 [Illustration]

PDF 117 The Inconceivable Shock
PDF 118 Electrical Orrery
PDF 119 Brilliant Electrical Star
PDF 120 Electrical Illumination
PDF 120 To Illuminate a Piece of Sugar by an Electrical Explosion
PDF 121 The Electrical Kiss
PDF 121 The Miraculous Luminaries
PDF 122 The Fiery Shower
PDF 123 The Illuminated Vacuum
PDF 124 The Illuminated Cylinder
PDF 125 To Illuminate Water
PDF 125 The Electrified Cotton
PDF 126 The Electric Sparks
PDF 127 Dancing Balls
PDF 128 Resin Ignited by Electricity
PDF 128 Spirits Ignited by Electricity
PDF 129 Electrified Ball
PDF 129 Illuminated Phosphorus
PDF 130 The Luminous Writing
PDF 131 Electrified Air
PDF 132 Another Electric Orrery
PDF 132 Beautiful Electrical Experiment
PDF 133 Safest Situation during a Thunder-Storm
PDF 134 The Elecetric Kite
PDF 135 The Electric Ball
PDF 136 To Spin Sealing-Wax into Threads by Electricity
PDF 137 The Electrified Camphor

PDF 137 Galvanism

PDF 150 Pneumatics

PDF 150 The Air Pump
PDF 151 The Shower of Fire
PDF 151 Bottels broken by Air
PDF 152 Water boiled by Air
PDF 152 Glas broken by Air
PDF 152 The Hand fixes by Air
PDF 153 The Floating Stone
PDF 153 Feather and Guinea
PDF 154 Withered Fruit Restored
PDF 154 The Magic Bell
PDF 154 The Mercurial Wand
PDF 155 Feathers heavier than Lead
PDF 155 The Self-moving Wheel
PDF 156 The Artificial Halo
PDF 156 Vegetable Air Bubbles
PDF 157 A Fountain to play by the pressure of Air
PDF 157 Effect of the Air respired from the Lungs
PDF 157 The Exploded Bladder
PDF 158 Magic Fountain
PDF 158 The Cemented Bladder
PDF 159 The Animated Bacchus
PDF 159 The Artificial Balloon
PDF 159 Curious Experiment with a Viper
PDF 160 New Method of Congealing Water
PDF 161 Experiment with Sparrows

PDF 162 Hydrostatics and Hydraulics

PDF 173 Acoustics

PDF 189 Experiments With The Magic Latern

PDF 189 Phanstasmagoria
PDF 190 Of Painting of Glasses
PDF 191 To facilitate the Painting on Glass, by laying on Mezzotinto Prints, for Magic Laterns, &c.
PDF 192 New Construction of Magic Latern Sliders
PDF 192 To represent a Storm at Sea
PDF 193 The Solar Magic Latern
PDF 194 To produce the appearance of a Spectre on a Pedestal in the middle of a Table
PDF 196 Shadows
PDF 196 Chinese Shadows

PDF 198 Recreations with Cards

PDF 198 Three cards being presented to Three Persons, to guess that which each has chosen

PDF 199 [Tabelle]

PDF 199 A certain Number of Cards being shewn to a Person, to guess that which he thought of
PDF 201 At the Game of Whist [...]
PDF 202 Sixteen Cards being disposed in Two Rows, to tell the Cards which a Person has thought of

PDF 202 [Tabelle]

PDF 203 To tell how many Cards a Person takes out of a Pack, and to specifiy each Card
PDF 204 To tell number of Points on Three Cards, placed under Three different Parcels of Cards
PDF 205 The Ten Duplicates

PDF 205 [Tabelle]

PDF 206 To guess the Number of Spots on any Card, which Person has drawn from a Pack
PDF 207 To change a Pack of Cards into various Pictures
PDF 207 To let Twenty Person dras Twenty Cards, and make each the same
PDF 208 Several Numbers being diposed on a circular Form, according to their natural Series, to tell that which any one has thought of

PDF 208 [Illustration]

PDF 209 To make a Card jump out of a Pack und rund on the Table

PDF 210 [Illustration]

PDF 210 How to make the Pass
PDF 211 The Divining Card
PDF 212 The Four Confederate Cards
PDF 213 The Metamorphosed Cards
PDF 214 To tell the Number of Cards by their Weight
PDF 215 To seperate the two Colours of a Pack of Cards by one Cut
PDF 215 The Four inseparable Kings
PDF 216 How to tell a Person any Card he thinks of, and to convey it into a Nut
PDF 216 To produce a Mouse from a Pack of Cards
PDF 217 To alter a Card to another which has been secured in a look-up box
PDF 218 To name several Cards which Two Persons have drawn from a Pack
PDF 219 The Card found out by the Point of the Sword
PDF 219 The Card change by the Word of Command
PDF 220 The Card in the Ring
PDF 221 The Card discovered under the Handkerchief
PDF 221 To tell the Card that a Person has touched with his Finger
PDF 222 To hold Kings or four Knaves, in your Hand, and to change them suddenly into blank Cards, then into four Aces
PDF 223 The Card in the Pocket Book
PDF 223 To shuffel Cards in such a manner, as always to keep one certain Card at the Bottom
PDF 224 The Card in the Egg
PDF 225 The Card discovered by the Touch or Smell
PDF 226 The Card hit upon by the Guess
PDF 227 The Numerical Cards
PDF 227 The Three Magical Parties
PDF 228 Several different Cards being fixed on by different Persons, to name that one on which each Person fixed
PDF 229 To tell the Amount of the Numbers of any Two Cards drawn from a common Pack
PDF 230 To discover the Card which is drawn, by the throw of a Die

PDF 232 Magical Properties of Figures

PDF 243 Miscellaneous Experiments

PDF 243 Illuminated Writing
PDF 243 The Chameleon Spirit
PDF 244 A Ball of Ice
PDF 244 Beautiful Metallic Crystals
PDF 244 To change a Blue Liquid to a Red
PDF 244 To change Red or Blue Liquid, to Green
PDF 245 To convert a Colourless Liquid to a Deep Brown
PDF 245 To produce a deep Blue Colour, by mixing two colourless Liquids
PDF 245 To render a Blue-Coloured Liquid, perfectly Colourless
PDF 246 To make the same liquid assume various Colours
PDF 246 To convert Green-Coloured Liquid to White
PDF 247 Luminous Liquor
PDF 247 Golden Ink
PDF 248 The Changeable Rose
PDF 248 To set Fire to a Combustible Body by Reflection
PDF 248 To cause a Green Lambent Flame to appear, and alternately disappear, at the Mouth of a Flask
PDF 249 Curious Change of Colour
PDF 250 The Distorting Mirror
PDF 250 Exploding Salt
PDF 251 Method of taking an Impression of Butterflies on Paper
PDF 251 To soften Horn
PDF 252 To make Moulds of Horn
PDF 252 To observe an Eclipse of the Sun, without Injury to the Eye
PDF 252 To extract the silver out of a Ring that is thick gilded, so that the Gold may remain entire
PDF 253 The Art of Bronzing
PDF 253 To cast Figures in Imitation of Ivory
PDF 254 To give Plaster Figures the appearance of Marble
PDF 254 Excellent method of taking off Impressions of Leaves, Plants, &c.
PDF 255 Alternate Illusion
PDF 256 Alarum
PDF 257 Two Experiments to be made with a Concave Mirror, which may be easily tried
PDF 258 Composition of an Ink similar to China Ink
PDF 258 To produce a Carmine-Red Flame
PDF 259 To produce an Emerald-Green Flame
PDF 259 To produce an Orange-coloured Flame
PDF 259 Timber in a Seventy-four Gun Ship
PDF 260 Subaqueous Exhalation
PDF 260 Flowers curiously affected by the Sun and the Weather
PDF 261 To make Luminous Writing in the Dark
PDF 261 The Sublimated Tree
PDF 261 Writing on Glass by the Rays of the Sun
PDF 262 To cause a Report like that of a Gun, with a Tobacco Pipe
PDF 262 To break a Stone with a blow of the Fist
PDF 263 Extreme Tenuity
PDF 263 Friction
PDF 263 Preparation of Phosphorized Ether
PDF 263 Permanent Expansion of Glass
PDF 264 How to Write in the Dark
PDF 264 To obtain exquisite Skeletons of Small Animals
PDF 264 To measure the Focal Distance of a Globe of Water and of Glass
PDF 265 Phosphorescence of Wood
PDF 266 How Light Wood may be made to Lie at the Bottom of Water
PDF 266 To Imitate the Luminous Appearance of the Lunar Disc
PDF 267 Easy Method of obtaining Flowers of different Colours from the same Stem
PDF 267 To fix Black Lead Pencil Drawings
PDF 268 To exhibit the Pressure of Fluids at different Depths
PDF 268 Two inodorous Bodies become very pungent and odorous by Mixture
PDF 269 Interesting Experiment for the Microscope
PDF 269 Experiment to shew the Separation of Bodies by Weight
PDF 270 Brilliant Combustion
PDF 270 Another
PDF 270 Curious Optical Deception
PDF 272 To exhibit the combustion of Iron-wire in Oxygen Gas
PDF 272 Curious Transcolourations
PDF 273 Another
PDF 273 Iron transformed into Silver
PDF 273 The Phial of the Four Elements
PDF 274 The Æolipiles
PDF 274 The Wheel Barometer in the form of a Syphon
PDF 275 Ideal Spectrum
PDF 275 Cohesion of Water
PDF 276 Botanical Experiment
PDF 277 To exhibit the Pressure of the Atmosphere
PDF 277 Artificial Mahogany
PDF 278 To make any Linen appear like Diaper
PDF 278 Chimney Ornaments made of Variegated Eggs
PDF 279 Pearls
PDF 280 To make Pomatum of Water and Wax
PDF 280 Iron Transformed into Copper
PDF 281 Art of Bronzing Plaster Figures
PDF 282 How to make a Cone, or Pyramid, move upon a Table, without Springs or any other artificial Means
PDF 282 Impenetrable Winter Cloaks, made of Feathers
PDF 283 Method of making Muffs and Tippets from the Plumage and Skins of Birds
PDF 284 A Picture that Changes with the Weather
PDF 285 How to Make a Peg that will exactly fit Three different kinds of Holes
PDF 286 Mutual Exchange of different Liquors in two Bottles, without using any other Vessel
PDF 286 To extinguish Ladies' Clothes, catching Fire
PDF 288 A Substitute for Ostrich Feathers
PDF 288 The Pressure of the Atmosphere
PDF 289 Artificial Flowers
PDF 290 Artificial Fruit, with Stems of the Natural Fruit
PDF 291 How to make a Piece of Metal, or any other Heavy Body, swim upon the surface of the Water, like a Cork
PDF 292 Patterns for Working Muslin Dresses, &c. may be multiplied by the following easy process. - Termed Stencilling
PDF 293 By knowing the last Figure of the Product of two Numbers, to tell the other Figures
PDF 294 A curious Recreation with a Hundred Numbers, usually called the Magical Century
PDF 295 Two Dice being thrown, to find the Number of Points on each Die, without seeing them
PDF 296 Varnish for Silk, wich renders it impervious to Water or Air
PDF 297 Method of Preserving Sea Plants
PDF 298 An easy and expeditious Method of providing a Substitute for Indian Ink
PDF 298 The Almond Trick
PDF 299 The Three Knives
PDF 300 The Glass of Wine under the Hat
PDF 300 Beautiful Golden Yellow Dye, for Silks, Cotton, &c.
PDF 301 To Prepare a Hortus Siccus
PDF 303 Easy Method of Gilding Steel
PDF 303 Water-Proof Cloth
PDF 304 Neptune's Fire
PDF 304 Composition of Tutanag, or Chinese White Copper
PDF 305 The Incombustible Handkerchief
PDF 305 To Freeze Water by Heat
PDF 305 The Magic Spider
PDF 306 The Extinguisher and Re-Illuminator
PDF 306 The Bottle Conjuror
PDF 307 The Geological Phial
PDF 307 To Dye White Gloves a Beautiful Purple
PDF 308 Amusing Explosion
PDF 308 The Floating Needle
PDF 308 The Dancing Ring
PDF 309 French Way of Washing fine Lace or Linen
PDF 309 The Dancing Ball
PDF 309 To Silver Paper without Silver, after the Chinese manner, very useful in Fancy Work
PDF 310 To make a Candle Burn under Water
PDF 311 Two Cold Liquids produce Fire
PDF 311 The three Haloes
PDF 312 Application of the Moire Metallique to Tin-Foil
PDF 314 To make Crocant or Ornamental Paste, for covering preserved Fruits
PDF 315 To make Wax Candles
PDF 315 Electric Spark from Brown Paper
PDF 316 The Magic Book
PDF 317 To draw Beer from a Knife
PDF 317 Method of Painting on Silk or Satin
PDF 318 To make Fine Blue Sealing Wax
PDF 319 Method of Teaching Drawing or Writing to Young Persons
PDF 320 How to Make a Drawing Desk
PDF 321 The Confederate Shilling
PDF 321 Effect of Heat on the Ruby
PDF 322 To Bleach Prints and Printed Books
PDF 323 To Remove the Stains of Ink
PDF 323 Dr. Wollaston's Ice Apparatus
PDF 324 Method of Colouring Alum Crystals
PDF 325 Valuable Transformation
PDF 325 Another
PDF 325 Easy Method of Silvering Ivory
PDF 326 Beautiful Metallic Crystallization
PDF 327 To Remove a Gold Ring from the Finger when it has become too tight
PDF 327 Experiment in Respiration
PDF 328 An Infallible Barometer
PDF 329 The Green Tint of Plants preserved by Gas
PDF 330 To Paint Gold Flowers on Silk
PDF 330 To Paint Silver Flowers on Silk
PDF 330 Crystallization of Tin
PDF 331 Pleasing Experiments with Glass Tubes
PDF 332 To detect Adulteration in Champagne
PDF 333 Art of Making the best Writing Ink
PDF 334 Extemporaneous Preparation of a Saline Draught
PDF 334 Restoration of Paintings
PDF 335 Looking-Glasses
PDF 335 Conversion of Rags into Sugar
PDF 336 To Destroy Caterpillars
PDF 337 Cheap Mode of preserving Anatomical Preparations
PDF 337 Infallible Antiseptic
PDF 337 Quadrature of the Circle. - Simple method of solving this Problem
PDF 338 M. Rieussec's Chronograph
PDF 339 To preserve Fresco Paintings
PDF 341 Working and joining of Torloise-shell
PDF 341 Substitute for a Copying Machine
PDF 342 Artificial Jewels
PDF 347 Perpetual Engravings on Steel, and other Metals
PDF 348 Bees
PDF 349 To make Roses blow very late
PDF 349 Method of Painting Japan Work
PDF 350 Manner of Varnishing Japan-work
PDF 351 River Spectacles
PDF 352 Preserving of Birds, &c.
PDF 352 Chinese Paints

PDF 355 The Art of Making Fire-Works

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