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 76
chips, etc.,forcing them to recede every way from the drop, as from a centre,leaving a large clear space. The Mechanical Bucephalus.The illustration of the horse furnishes a very good solution of apopular paradox in mechanics: Given, a body having a tendencyto fall by its own weight; required, how… … Fig. 20. is somewhere about the middle of its body. It is evident, there-fore, that were it placed on its hinder legs on a table, a, the lineof its direction or centre, would fall considerably beyond its base,and the horse would fall on the ground. But to prevent this,there is a stiff v>ire…
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