Popular pastimes for amusement and instruction : being a standard work on games, plays, magic, and natural phenomena suitable for all occasions : containing parlor games, charming tableaux, tricks of magic, charades and conundrums, curious puzzles, phrenology and mind reading, palmistry or how to read the hand, humorous and pathetic recitations, dialogues, etc., etc. : including the delightful art of entertaining, the whole forming a charming treasury of pastimes for the home, public schools and academies, lodges, social gatherings, Sunday schools, etc., etc. (1901)
Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909, Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) DLC · Philadelphia : National Publishing Co. · leaf 193
is a very ancientremedy. Much amusement may be causedin an evening company by having a smallbattery, from which a slight shock maybe given to a circle having their handsjoined. Peals of laughter always accom-pany these electric experiments, 166 INSTRUCTIVE RECREATIONS. HOW SOUND IS INCREASED. The… … THE MICROPHONE. sistance of conducting bodies. It hasalways been known that many solids areexcellent conductors of sound. One of the little experiments of boyhoodis for one lad to hold his head under waterwhile another,, not far away, strikes twostones together under the surface. The water coming…
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