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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

Illuminations, artificial                                       22
                 chemical                                         36
  Illusion, alternate                                            146
  Incendiary, unconscious                                         88
  Indromacus                                                     103
  Ink, invisible                                                  23
                 Gold, Silver, Yellow, Red, Green, Violet,
                  and Grey                                    24, 25
                 secret Correspondence by Means of                25
       golden                                                     41
       white                                                      42
  Iron, transformed into Copper                                   36
                         Silver                                   36
        melted in a Moment and run into Drops                     37
        or Steel, to soften                                      135
  Ivory, to cast Figures in Imitation of                         134

  Kings, the four inseparable                                    116
  Kite, electric                                                  87

  Lamp to burn twelve Months without replenishing                 29
       Chronometer                                                46
  Landscape, artificial                                           66
             to draw correctly                                    67
  Lead, metallic, produced from the Powder                       141
  Leech, a Prognosticator of Weather                             157
  Leyden Phial                                                    94
  Light, rays of                                                 143
         refraction of                                           144
         travelling of                                           145
  Lightning, artificial                                           14
             its wonderful Nature                                144
             to guard against                                    153
  Liquor that shines in the Dark                                  40
         luminous                                                 41
  Luminaries, miraculous                                          89

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