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ENDLESS AMUSEMENT:
A COLLECTION OF NEARLY 400 ENTERTAINING EXPERIMENTS
IN VARIOUS BRANCHES OF SCIENCE;
ACOUSTICS, ELECTRICITY, MAGNETISM, ARITHMETIC, HYDRAULICS, MECHANICS, CHEMISTRY, HYDROSTATICS, OPTICS; WONDERS OF THE AIR-PUMP;
ALL THE POPULAR TRICKS AND CHANGES OF THE CARDS, &c., &c.
TO WHICH IS ADDED, A COMPLETE SYSTEM OF PYROTECHNY; OR, THE ART OF MAKING FIRE-WORKS.
THE WHOLE SO CLEARLY EXPLAINED AS TO BE WITHIN THE REACH OF THE MOST LIMITED CAPACITY.
With Illustrations.
FROM THE SEVENTH LONDON EDITION.
PHILADELPHIA: LEA AND BLANCHARD. 1847.
CONTENTS.
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.
The Enchanted Palace.
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.
ROCKET STARS.
RAINS.
WHEELS.
BALLOON CASES.
MORTARS.
Aigrettes.
FIRE-PUMPS, OR ROMAN CANDLES.
AN ARTIFICIAL EARTHQUAKE.
Chinese Fountains.
The Dodecahedron,
Stars with Points.
Fixed Sun with a transparent Face.
DETONATING WORKS.
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.
MISCELLANEOUS WORKS IN VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS OF LITERATURE, PUBLISHED BY LEA AND BLANCHARD.
THE AMERICAN ENCYCLOPÆDIA. BROUGHT UP TO 1847.
THE ENCYCLOPÆDIA AMERICANA: A POPULAR DICTIONARY OF ARTS, SCIENCES, LITERATURE, HISTORY, POLITICS, AND BIOGRAPHY, IN FOURTEEN LARGE OCTAVO VOLUMES OF OVER SIX HUNDRED DOUBLE COLUMNED PAGES EACH.
SUPPLEMENTARY VOLUME (THE FOURTEENTH), BRINGING THE WORK UP TO THE YEAR 1847. EDITED BY HENRY VETHAKE, LL.D. Vice-Provost and Professor of Mathematics in the University of Pennsylvania, Author of "A Treatise on Political Economy."
CAMPBELL'S LORD CHANCELLORS. NOW COMPLETE.
LIVES OF THE LORD CHANCELLORS AND KEEPERS OF THE GREAT SEAL OF ENGLAND. FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE REIGN OF KING GEORGE IV., BY JOHN LORD CAMPBELL, A.M., F.R.S.E.
MURRAY'S ENCYCLOPÆDIA OF GEOGRAPHY.
THE ENCYCLOPÆDIA OF GEOGRAPHY, COMPRISING A COMPLETE DESCRIPTION OF THE EARTH, PHYSICAL, STATISTICAL, CIVIL, AND POLITICAL. EXHIBITING ITS RELATION TO THE HEAVENLY BODIES, ITS PHYSICAL STRUCTURE, THE NATURAL HISTORY OF EACH COUNTRY, AND THE INDUSTRY, COMMERCE, POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS, AND CIVIL AND SOCIAL STATE OF ALL NATIONS. BY HUGH MURRAY, F.R.S.E., &c. Assisted in Botany by Professor HOOKER—Zoology, &c., by W. W. SWAINSON—Astronomy &c., by Professor WALLACE—Geology, &c., by Professor JAMESON. REVISED, WITH ADDITIONS, BY THOMAS G. BRADFORD. THE WHOLE BROUGHT UP, BY A SUPPLEMENT, TO 1843.
SCHOOL BOOKS.
BIRD'S NATURAL PHILOSOPHY. NOW READY.
ELEMENTS OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY, BEING AN EXPERIMENTAL INTRODUCTION TO THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES. ILLUSTRATED WITH OVER THREE HUNDRED WOOD-CUTS. BY GOLDING BIRD, M.D., Assistant Physician to Guy's Hospital. FROM THE THIRD LONDON EDITION.
HERSCHELL'S ASTRONOMY.
A TREATISE ON ASTRONOMY, BY SIR JOHN F. W. HERSCHELL, F. R. S., &c. WITH NUMEROUS PLATES AND WOOD-CUTS. A NEW EDITION, WITH A PREFACE AND A SERIES OF QUESTIONS, BY S. C. WALKER.
BREWSTER'S OPTICS.
ELEMENTS OF OPTICS, BY SIR DAVID BREWSTER. WITH NOTES AND ADDITIONS, BY A. D. BACHE, LL.D. Superintendent of the Coast Survey, &c.
MULLER'S PHYSICS AND METEOROLOGY. NOW READY.
PRINCIPLES OF PHYSICS AND METEOROLOGY, BY J. MULLER, Professor of Physics at the University of Freiburg. ILLUSTRATED WITH NEARLY FIVE HUNDRED AND FIFTY ENGRAVINGS ON WOOD, AND TWO COLORED PLATES.
TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE.
GRAHAM'S CHEMISTRY. NEARLY READY.
ELEMENTS OF CHEMISTRY, INCLUDING THE APPLICATIONS OF THE SCIENCE IN THE ARTS. BY T. GRAHAM, F. R. S., &c. SECOND AMERICAN, FROM THE SECOND LONDON EDITION. EDITED AND REVISED BY ROBERT BRIDGES, M.D., Professor of Chemistry in the Franklin Medical College, Philadelphia.
ARNOTT'S PHYSICS.
ELEMENTS OF PHYSICS; OR, NATURAL PHILOSOPHY, GENERAL AND MEDICAL. WRITTEN FOR UNIVERSAL USE, IN PLAIN, OR NON-TECHNICAL LANGUAGE. BY NIELL ARNOTT, M.D. A NEW EDITION, BY ISAAC HAYS, M.D.
ELEMENTARY CHEMISTRY, THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL, BY GEORGE FOWNES, Ph.D., Chemical Lecturer in the Middlesex Hospital Medical School, &c., &c. WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS. EDITED, WITH ADDITIONS, BY ROBERT BRIDGES, M.D., Professor of General and Pharmaceutical Chemistry in the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, &c., &c. SECOND AMERICAN EDITION.
POPULAR SCIENCE.
KIRBY AND SPENCE'S ENTOMOLOGY, FOR POPULAR USE.
AN INTRODUCTION TO ENTOMOLOGY, OR, ELEMENTS OF THE NATURAL HISTORY OF INSECTS; COMPRISING AN ACCOUNT OF NOXIOUS AND USEFUL INSECTS, OF THEIR METAMORPHOSES, FOOD, STRATAGEMS, HABITATIONS, SOCIETIES, MOTIONS, NOISES, HYBERNATION, INSTINCT, &c., &c. With Plates, Plain or Colored. BY W. KIRBY, M.A., F.R.S., AND W. SPENCE, ESQ., F.R.S. FROM THE SIXTH LONDON EDITION, WHICH WAS CORRECTED AND MUCH ENLARGED. In one large octavo volume, extra cloth.
JOHNSON AND LANDRETH ON FRUIT, KITCHEN, AND FLOWER GARDENING.
A DICTIONARY OF MODERN GARDENING, BY GEORGE WILLIAM JOHNSON, ESQ. Author of the "Principles of Practical Gardening," "The Gardener's Almanac," &c. WITH ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY WOOD-CUTS. EDITED, WITH NUMEROUS ADDITIONS, BY DAVID LANDRETH, OF PHILADELPHIA.
GRAHAME'S COLONIAL HISTORY.
HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. FROM THE PLANTATION OF THE BRITISH COLONIES TILL THEIR ASSUMPTION OF INDEPENDENCE. SECOND AMERICAN EDITION, ENLARGED AND AMENDED, WITH A MEMOIR BY PRESIDENT QUINCY. IN TWO LARGE OCTAVO VOLUMES, EXTRA CLOTH, WITH A PORTRAIT.
ANSTED'S ANCIENT WORLD. JUST ISSUED.
THE ANCIENT WORLD, OR, PICTURESQUE SKETCHES OF CREATION, BY D. T. ANSTED, M. A., F.R.S, F.G.S., &c. PROFESSOR OF GEOLOGY, IN KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON.
CHEMISTRY OF THE FOUR SEASONS, SPRING, SUMMER, AUTUMN, AND WINTER.
AN ESSAY, PRINCIPALLY CONCERNING NATURAL PHENOMENA, ADMITTING OF INTERPRETATION BY CHEMICAL SCIENCE, AND ILLUSTRATING PASSAGES OF SCRIPTURE. BY THOMAS GRIFFITHS, Professor of Chemistry in the Medical College of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, &c.
PHILOSOPHY IN SPORT, MADE SCIENCE IN EARNEST; BEING AN ATTEMPT TO ILLUSTRATE THE FIRST PRINCIPLES OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY, BY THE AID OF THE POPULAR TOYS AND SPORTS OF YOUTH. FROM THE SIXTH AND GREATLY IMPROVED LONDON EDITION.
ENDLESS AMUSEMENT. JUST ISSUED.
ENDLESS AMUSEMENT, A COLLECTION OF NEARLY FOUR HUNDRED ENTERTAINING EXPERIMENTS IN VARIOUS BRANCHES OF SCIENCE, INCLUDING ACOUSTICS, ARITHMETIC, CHEMISTRY, ELECTRICITY, HYDRAULICS, HYDROSTATICS, MAGNETISM, MECHANICS, OPTICS, WONDERS OF THE AIR PUMP, ALL THE POPULAR TRICKS AND CHANGES OF THE CARDS, &c., &c. TO WHICH IS ADDED, A COMPLETE SYSTEM OF PYROTECHNY, OR THE ART OF MAKING FIRE-WORKS: THE WHOLE SO CLEARLY EXPLAINED AS TO BE WITHIN REACH OF THE MOST LIMITED CAPACITY. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS. FROM THE SEVENTH LONDON EDITION.
PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. BY MARY SOMERVILLE. AUTHOR OF "CONNECTION OF THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES," ETC.
READINGS FOR THE YOUNG. FROM THE WORKS OF SIR WALTER SCOTT.
TALES AND STORIES FROM HISTORY. BY AGNES STRICKLAND, AUTHOR OF "LIVES OF THE QUEENS OF ENGLAND," ETC.
BOY'S TREASURY OF SPORTS.
PREFACE.
TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES
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