E-text prepared by Craig Kirkwood, Demian Katz, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by the Digital Library of the Falvey Memorial Library, Villanova University (https://digital.library.villanova.edu) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 57894-h.htm or 57894-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/57894/57894-h/57894-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/57894/57894-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through the Digital Library of the Falvey Memorial Library, Villanova University. See https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:504090 Transcriber’s Note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). Text enclosed by equal signs is in bold face (=bold=). An additional Transcriber’s Note is at the end. [Illustration: How To Do MECHANICAL TRICKS] HOW TO DO MECHANICAL TRICKS. Containing Complete Instruction for Performing Over Sixty Ingenious Mechanical Tricks. by A. ANDERSON. Fully Illustrated. New York: Frank Tousey, Publisher, 24 Union Square. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1902, by Frank Tousey, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington, D. C. * * * * * CONTENTS The Pile of Draughtsmen. The Decanter, Card, and Coin. A Clever Blow. The Obedient Coin. To Cut a String With Your Hands. The Rebound. A Fiery Catapult. To Make an Exact Balance. The Recomposition of Light. The Mysterious Apple. Economical Letter-Scales. Tracing a Spiral. The Inclined Plane. To Cut a Bottle With a String. Equilibrium of a Knife in Mid-Air. A Trick With Four Matches. The Distance of an Inaccessible Point. Practical Tracing of a Meridian Line. To Measure the Height of a Mountain. To Take Up Four Knives with One. The Tack in the Ceiling. The Jumping Pea. To Acquire a True Eye. The Air-Tight Stopper. The Fusee Rocket. A Novel Table Mat. Geometrical Paper Band. Photographic Camera. The Phantom Needle. Amphitrite. Optical Illusions. The Insensible Coin. The Asses’ Bridge. Another Way to Prove the Preceding Theorem. Indented Angles. A Cheap Shooting Gallery. The Coin in Equilibrium. The Submerged Coin. The Smoke Rings. The Walking Cork. The Obstinate Cork. Petroleum Pulverizer. Electric Attraction and Repulsion. The Bust of the Sage. The Witchery of the Hand. The Perspectograph. Camphor in Water. A Simple Multiplier. The Drawing Room Mirror. Elementary Gas-Burner. Rapid Vegetation. Miniature Volcanoes. HOW TO DO MECHANICAL TRICKS. The Pile of Draughtsmen.