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 84
ork,6, large enough to float and sustain the syphon. The long legwill now be on the outside of the vessel. Pour clean water intothe vessel until the cork nearly touches the cross piece. Chargethe syphon by suction, and it will commence revolving rapidlyaround the vessel, continuing as long as any… … FiG. 26.ber of chemical compounds, nearly all of which can, by distillation, IS NATURAL MAGIC; OR, RECREATIONS IN SCIENCE. be converted into an illuminating gas; and with this gas nearlyall our cities are now lighted in the dark hours of night. Tomake it as represented in our engraving, obtain some…
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