Parlour Magic :: CONTENTS.

CONTENTS.

Contents

Transmutations.	Page
The Spectral Lamp	1
Curious Change of Colours	2
The Protean Light	2
The Chameleon Flowers	3
To change the Colours of Flowers	3
Changes of the Poppy	3
To change the Colour of a Rose	4
Light changing White into Black	4
The Visibly growing Acorn	4
Changes in Sap-Green	5
To revive apparently dead Plants	5
Singular effect of Tears	5
Beauties of Crystallization	5
To crystallize Camphor	7
Crystallized Tin	7
Crystals in hard Water	7
Varieties of Crystals	7
Heat from Crystallization	8
Splendid Sublimation	8
Artificial Ice	8
Magic Inks	8
Chameleon Liquids	9
The Magic Dyes	9
Wine changed into Water	10
Two colourless transparent Liquids become black and opaque	10
Two colourless Fluids make a coloured one	10
Change of colour by colourless Fluids	10
To change a Blue Liquid to White	11
Veritable “Black” Tea	11
Restoration of Colour by Water	11
The Magic Writing	12
Two Liquids make a Solid	12
Two Solids make a Liquid	12
A solid opaque mass made a transparent Liquid	12
Two cold Liquids make a hot one	12
Quadruple Transmutation	13
Quintuple Transmutation	13
Combination of Colours	13
Union of two Metals without Heat	13
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Heat passing through Glass	68
Metals unequally influenced by Heat	68
Spontaneous Combustion	69
Inequality of Heat in Fire irons	69
Expansion of Metal by Heat	69
Evaporation of a Metal	69
A Floating Metal on Fire	70
Heat and Cold from Flannel	70
Ice melted by Air	70
To hold a hot Tea-kettle on the Hand	70
Incombustible Linen	71
The Burning Circle	71
Water of different Temperatures in the same Vessel	71
Warmth of different Colours	71
Substitute for Fire	72

Gas and Steam.
Laughing Gas	75
The Luminous Wand	76
To make Carbonic Acid Gas	76
Carbonic Acid Gas in Wine or Beer Vessels	76
To extinguish Flame with Gas	77
Effect of Hydrogen on the Voice	77
Magic Taper	78
The Gas Candle	78
Gas Bubbles	78
Gas-light in the day-time	79
Miniature Balloons	79
Miniature Gas-lighting	79
Musical Gas	80
Miniature Will o’-the-wisp	81
Phosphoric Illumination	81
Combustion of Iron in Oxygen Gas	81
Glow-worm in Oxygen Gas	82
Luminous Charcoal	82
Brilliant Combustion in Oxygen	82
Flame from Cold Metals	83
Phosphorus in Chlorine	83
Caoutchouc Balloons	84
To increase the Light of Coal Gas	84
Gas from Indian Rubber	84
Ether Gas	137
The Velocity of Motion	138
The Exploding Bubble	139
The Magic Picture	139
Artificial Lightning	140
Three objects discernible only with both Eyes	140
To tell by a Watch Dial the Hour when a Person intends to rise	140
To make a Ring suspend by a Thread, after the Thread has been burned	141
To melt a piece of Money in a Walnut-shell without injuring the Shell	141
The Magical Mirrors	142
The Enchanted Bottle	143
The Armed Apparition	143
To extract the Silver out of a Ring that is thickly Gilded, so that the Gold may remain entire	144
Curious Experiment with a Glass of Water	144
A Luminous Bottle, which will show the Hour on a Watch in the Dark	144
The Wonderful Hat	145
To bring a Person down upon a Feather	145
The Apparent Impossibility	146
An Omelet cooked in a Hat over the Flame of a Candle	146
The Impossible Omelet	147
Go if you can	147
The Figure Puzzle	147
The Visible Invisible	147
The Double Meaning	148
Quite tired out	148
Something out of the Common	148
To rub one Sixpence into two	149
Magic Circle	149

Melange.
Illusions of Touch	153
Illusion of the Taste	154
The General Bleacher	154
Influence of coloured Glass on bulbous Roots	155
The Spinning-top “asleep”	155
To judge of Weights	156
Quicksilver and Oil united	156
To dissolve the Soda in Glass	156
Waterproof Paper	157
To Dissolve Gold or Platinum	157
Colder than Ice	157
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