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 67
ssure in all directions alike.It is in this respect especially that gases differ from solids andliquids, for the latter have only a tendency to press downwards,while gases in general, from their extreme elasticity and the mo-bility of their particles, press as much in an upward as in a down-ward… … Fia. 13. nearly 15 lbs. on every square inch of all objects on the earthssurface; a weight which would be sufficient to overwhelm m.ost ofthe works of nature, if there were not a corresponding pressure in anexactly opposite direction to counteract its effect. Such being the NATURAL magic; OR,…
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