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 89
SCIENCE. stopped by a finger of the other hand, the funnel is completelyfilled with water, so as to allow the liquid to flow over from theinterior into the space, a, a. The thumb is then placed upon theaperture 5, and the finger withdrawn from c, when all the water inthe inner part will, of course,… … However, immediately the thumb is removed from the apertureb, the air will enter it and find its way into the compartment, andthe pressure being thus counterbalanced, the water will all be dis-charged from it. It will thus seem as if the fresh supply is derivedfrom some mag^c or invisible source.…
Riddles · Amusements
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