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.
4. The fractional numbers are represented by a hyphen and a forward
slash. For example, 3-1/2 represents three and a half.
5. The following misprints have been corrected:
"umlimited" corrected to "unlimited" (page 67)
"immerged" corrected to "immersed" (page 124)
"shil ing" corrected to "shilling" (page 133)
"where-ever" corrected to "wherever" (page 148)
"sttll" corrected to "still" (page 149)
"mattrasses" corrected to "mattresses" (page 156)
6. Other than the corrections listed above, printer's inconsistencies
in spelling, punctuation, and hyphenation, have been retained.
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