Book of riddles and five hundred home amusements : containing a choice and curious collection of riddles, charades, enigmas, rebuses, anagrams, transpositions, conundrums, amusing puzzles, queer sleights, recreations in arithmetic, fireside games, and natural magic, embracing entertaining amusements in magnetism, chemistry, second sight, and simple recreations in science for family and social pastime (1863)
Frikell, Wiljalba, 1818-1903, Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) DLC · New York : Dick & Fitzgerald · leaf 60
duced similar to an organpipe. This sound, or musical flame, varies in note according tothe diameter of the tube, being deeper or more bass as the tubeis increased in size. By using various-sized tubes, different soundsare thus readily produced. The true explanation of this singularexperiment… … Fig. 8.side of the stick, parallel, at the distance of about three inches 54 NATUEAL magic; OR, KECEEATIOKS IN SCIENCE. from the end you place on the glass, and be carefiil that thecurves in the handles are turned towards the glass, as representedin the accompanying engraving. You may then drink…
Riddles · Amusements
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