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 77
. A bit of thin steel wire, or a long fine stocking needle,having a quarter of an inch cut off at thepoint, is to be heated in the middle, that itmay be slightly bent there; then while hota bit of sealing-wax is to be attached to thecentre, and the point which was cut off.Fig. 21. being heated at… … NATURAL MAGIC ; OR, RECREATIONS IN SCIENCE. Yl below the pivot to keep it from overturning. It must now bemagnetized, by sliding one end of a magnet, balf-a-dozen or moretimes, from the centre to one end of the needle; and the otherend, a similar number of times, from the centre of the needle toits…
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