The young folk's cyclopædia of games and sports ; (1899)
Champlin, John Denison, 1834-1915, Bostwick, Arthur Elmore, 1860-1942, joint author · New York, H. Holt and company · leaf 56
Fig. 2. but will rock backward and forwardtill it is at rest again. 2. To balance a coin edgewise onthe point of a needle. The needle isfastened in the cork of a bottle. Thecoin is firmly fixed in a slit cut in BALANCING EXPERIMENTS 47 BALANCING EXPERIMENTS another cork, in which two forks… … Fig. 3-place on the rim of the neck a corkin which two forks are stuck, as inFig- 3. The water may now bepoured out of the bottle,the cork remaining bal-anced. 4. The Tumbler.This is a toy, consistingof the figure of a man,made of pith or someother light substance,standing on the flat sideof a half…
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