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 88
d paste or gum it in an erect position on the insideof a watch-glass, A. Then procure a black japanned waiter, B, ora clean plate v/ill do, and holding it in an inclined position, placethe figure and watch glass on it, and they will, of course, slide / NATUEAL MAGIC; OB, EECREATIONS IN SCIENCE. 81… … Fig. 30. revolve with increasing velocity, obeying the inclination and posi-tion of the plane, as directed by the hand of the experunentalist.The reason of this is, in the first place, in consequence of thft cohe-sion of the water to the two surfaces, a new force is introduced bywhich an unequal…
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