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 86
ring by turning the bow^, so that the spring of the bow mayunwind the corks, with their anterior edges ascending; then placethe cork, with the bow attached to it, upon a table, and with afinger pressed on the upper cork, press strongly enough to preventthe string from unwinding, and taking it away… … Fig. 28. Fig. 29. effects visible, and it may also be used to test the direction of thecurrents in our rooms and dv/ellings. To construct one, a piece of 80 NATURAL magic; OR, RECREATIONS IN SCIENCE, card board is taken and cut in the form of a spiral, as at A, and togive effect it may be painted…
Riddles · Amusements
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