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 203
f making water by puttingtogether hydrogen and oxygen is calledsynthesis by the chemists, from the Greekword synthesis^ a putting or placing to-getheio 174 INSTRUCTIVE RECREATIONS. The composition of water can be shown,however, in a variety of ways: you can,for example, decompose it by means… … BURNING HYDROGEN FROM A JET. quite full of the liquid. Now the plati-num wires pass through the glass vessel,and are connected with the poles of abattery. Composition of Water IndirectlyShown. Bubbles of gas begin to rise from eachpole and fill the tubes. The two tubesare filled at different rates,…
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