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Endless Amusement: A Collection of Nearly 400 Entertaining Experiments in Various Branches of Science; Including 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.Unknown

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Endless Amusement: A Collection of Nearly 400 Entertaining Experiments in Various Branches of Science; Including 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.

Name: Endless Amusement: A Collection of Nearly 400 Entertaining Experiments in Various Branches of Science; Including 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.
Author: Unknown

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Card tricks; Fireworks; Magic tricks; Science -- Experiments; Scientific recreations

Wand, magnetic                                                  70
        mercurial                                                 79
  Watch Dial, to tell by one the Hour when a Person intends
        to rise                                                   17
        mysterious                                                70
        Lamp                                                     140
  Water gilding on Silver                                         43
        which gives Silver a Gold Colour                          43
        to give any Metal a Gold Colour                       43, 44
        Sun                                                       50
        illuminated                                               96
        colder than Ice                                          127
        Experiment with a Glass of                               135
        beautifully transparent                                  142
        Power of                                                 143
              in Steam                                           158
        Pressure of                                              143
        Mass of, contained in the Sea                            145
        Rockets                                                  192
        Wheels, horizontal                                       193
        Pipes in Fire-works                                      193
        Mines                                                    194
        Fire Globes                                              194
        Balloons, odoriferous                                    195
        Fire Fountains                                           200
  Weather, to foretel                                            140
           Table                                                 162
  Wheels, self-moving                                         79, 94
          in Fire-works                                          180
          single vertical                                        180
          horizontal                                             181
          plural                                                 182
          spiral                                                 182
          Balloon                                                183
          double spiral                                          183
          illuminated spiral                                     183
  Winter, changed to Spring                                       26
  Writing, mysterious                                             26
           illuminated                                            28
           burnt, restored                                       129
           in the Dark, to make luminous                         139
           on Glass by the Rays of the Sun                       148




ENDLESS
AMUSEMENT.


_To produce Fire by the Mixture of two cold Liquids._

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