How to Do Mechanical Tricks

How to Do Mechanical Tricks - Containing Complete Instruction for Performing Over Sixty Ingenious Mechanical Tricks

The Pile of Draughtsmen. The Decanter, Card, and Coin. A Clever Blow. The Obedient Coin. To Cut a String With Your Hands. The Rebound. A Fiery Catapult. To Make an Exact Balance. The Recomposition of Light. The Mysterious Apple. Economical Letter-Scales. Tracing a Spiral. The Inclined Plane. To Cut a Bottle With a String. Equilibrium of a Knife in Mid-Air. A Trick With Four Matches. The Distance of an Inaccessible Point. Practical Tracing of a Meridian Line. To Measure the Height of a Mountain. To Take Up Four Knives with One. The Tack in the Ceiling. The Jumping Pea. To Acquire a True Eye. The Air-Tight Stopper. The Fusee Rocket. A Novel Table Mat. Geometrical Paper Band. Photographic Camera. The Phantom Needle. Amphitrite. Optical Illusions. The Insensible Coin. The Asses Bridge. Another Way to Prove the Preceding Theorem. Indented Angles. A Cheap Shooting Gallery. The Coin in Equilibrium. The Submerged Coin. The Smoke Rings. The Walking Cork. The Obstinate Cork. Petroleum Pulverizer. Electric Attraction and Repulsion. The Bust of the Sage. The Witchery of the Hand. The Perspectograph. Camphor in Water. A Simple Multiplier. The Drawing Room Mirror. Elementary Gas-Burner. Rapid Vegetation. Miniature Volcanoes. Pile up ten draughtsmen, as shown in Fig. 1. Before this pile place another piece on edge, and pressing its circumference with the forefinger, let it glide from underneath so that it strikes the pile with considerable force. The piece so thrown must, you will think, upset the whole pile of draughts; but no: the piece thus sharply sent forward will strike only one piece of the pile, and this alone will be dislodged without putting the others out of their equilibrium, and the whole column above will settle down together on the bottom piece. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 57894
Author: Anderson, A.
Release Date: Sep 13, 2018
Format: eBook
Language: English