Tissandier, Gaston, 1843-1899, Frith, Henry, 1840-, Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) DLC · London, New York [etc.] Ward, Lock & Co · leaf 38
e firstpair, face to face, then a seventh piece over all • as inillustration (Fig. 15). - The experiment consists in detaching rapidly the lowest THE PRINCIPLE OF INERTIA. 21 horizontal domino from the building, without disturbingthe remainder of the erection. To do this you must placeanother… … Fig. i6.—The Plate and the Coins Experiment. backwards, by which movement the corner D describesa curve in the direction of the dotted line to C. If this movement be properly accomplished, the angleD will suddenly strike the lower horizontal domino andproject it in the direction of the arrow F.…
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