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Endless Amusement
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664652768
Table of Contents
CURIOUS EXPERIMENTS WITH THE MAGIC LANTERN.
INTERESTING EXPERIMENTS WITH THE AIR-PUMP.
AMUSING EXPERIMENTS IN ELECTRICITY.
SYSTEM OF PYROTECHNY;
ART OF MAKING FIRE-WORKS.
MISCELLANEOUS WORKS IN VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS OF LITERATURE, PUBLISHED BY LEA AND BLANCHARD.
THE AMERICAN ENCYCLOPÆDIA. BROUGHT UP TO 1847.
CAMPBELL'S LORD CHANCELLORS. NOW COMPLETE.
MURRAY'S ENCYCLOPÆDIA OF GEOGRAPHY.
BIRD'S NATURAL PHILOSOPHY. NOW READY.
MULLER'S PHYSICS AND METEOROLOGY. NOW READY.
GRAHAM'S CHEMISTRY. NEARLY READY.
KIRBY AND SPENCE'S ENTOMOLOGY, FOR POPULAR USE.
JOHNSON AND LANDRETH ON FRUIT, KITCHEN, AND FLOWER GARDENING.
THE ANCIENT WORLD, OR, PICTURESQUE SKETCHES OF CREATION, BY D. T. ANSTED, M. A., F.R.S, F.G.S., &c. PROFESSOR OF GEOLOGY, IN KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON.
CHEMISTRY OF THE FOUR SEASONS, SPRING, SUMMER, AUTUMN, AND WINTER.
ENDLESS AMUSEMENT. JUST ISSUED.
ENDLESS
AMUSEMENT.
To produce Fire by the Mixture of two cold Liquids.
Take half a pound of pure dry nitrate, in powder; put it into a retort that is quite dry; add an equal quantity of highly rectified oil of vitriol, and, distilling the mixture in a moderate sand heat, it will produce a liquor like a yellowish fume; this, when caught in a dry receiver, is Glauber's Spirits of Nitre; probably the preparation, under that name, may be obtained of the chemists, which will of course save much time and trouble.
You then put a drachm of distilled oil of cloves, turpentine, or carraways, in a glass vessel; and if you add an equal quantity, or rather more, of the above spirit, though both are in themselves perfectly cold, yet, on mixing them together, a great flame will arise and destroy them both, leaving only a little resinous matter at the bottom.
The Exploding Bubble.
If you take up a small quantity of melted glass with a tube, (the bowl of a common tobacco-pipe will do,) and let a drop fall into a vessel of water, it will chill and condense with a fine spiral tail, which being broken, the whole substance will burst with a loud explosion, without injury either to the party that holds it, or him that breaks it; but if the thick end be struck, even with a hammer, it will not break.
The Magic Picture.
Take two level pieces of glass, (plate glass is the best,) about three inches long and four wide, exactly of the same size; lay one on the other, and leave a space between them by pasting a piece of card, or two or three small pieces of thick paper, at each corner.
Join these glasses together at the edges by a composition of lime slaked by exposure to the air, and white of an egg. Cover all the edges of these glasses with parchment or bladder, except at one end, which is to be left open to admit the following composition.
Dissolve, by a slow fire, six ounces of hogs'-lard, with half an ounce of white wax; to which you may add an ounce of clear linseed oil.
This must be poured in a liquid state,
