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Aces, the convertible 117
Æolipiles 60
Aigrettes 185
Air-pump 77
bottles broken by 77
glass broken by 77
hand fixed by 77
water boiled by 78
bubbles, vegetable 78
electrified 98
Alarum 147
Alphabet, changes of, in square Yards 59
Apparition, armed 126
Atmosphere, to show the Pressure of 137
Aurora Borealis, electric 91
Bacchus, animated 81
Ball, electrified 97
Ball, electric 99
Balloon, artificial 81
Balloon, electric 96
Balloon, Cases in Fire-works 184
Balloons, Paper, to construct 42
Balloons, in Fire-works, to load with Stars, Serpents, &c. 184
Balls, dancing 93
Barley, the Awn of, an Hydrometer 157
Bell, magic 79
Bladder, exploded 80
Bladder, cemented 81
Blue, to change to White 35
Bodies, two inodorous, become pungent by Mixture 145
Body, combustible, to ignite by reflection 57
Bottle, magic 48
Bottle, enchanted 59
Bronzing, the Art of 133
Bubble, exploding 13
Bubbles, aËrial 78
Burning-glasses, account of two 32
Busts, talking 61
Butterflies, to take Impressions of on Paper 134
Cameleon Spirit 23
Camera Obscura, to construct 16
Camphor, electrified 100
Candle lighted by electricity 84
Candle Bombs 84
Card, divining 107
Card, numerical 108
Card, hit upon by guess 109
Card, found by the Point of a Sword 109
Card, changed by Word of Command 109
Card, in the Ring 112
Card, in the Mirror 113
Card, in the Opera-glass 113
Card, discovered by the throw of a Die 115
Card, discovered under the Handkerchief 117
Card, to tell that a person has touched 117
Card, in the Pocket-book 118
Card, in the Egg 118
Card, discovered by the Touch or Smell 119
Cards, magnetic 71
Cards, Amusements with 101
Cards, Points on three, to name, &c. 101
Cards, to tell how many taken from a Pack 102
Cards, to name several fixed on 104
Cards, to name the Rank of, drawn from a Piquet Pack 104
Cards, to tell the Numbers of any two 105
Cards, to tell the Numbers of any three 106
Cards, four confederate 108
Cards, to separate the two Colours of a Pack of, at one Cut 114
Cards, metamorphosed 114
Cards, Number of, told by their Weight 116
Cards, to change, that several persons have drawn from the Pack 116
Cards, inverted 119
Cards, transmutable 119
Cards, convertible 120
Cascade, magical 50
Cascade, musical 148
Cascade, of fire, to represent 151
Cement, never-yielding 37
Changes on twelve Bells 58
Charcoal for Fire-works 164
Chase, magic 88
Coins, to take impressions of 44
Compositions for Fire-works, method of mixing 168
Concerto, solar 62
Cork heavier than Lead 81
Correspondence, secret 18, 25
by music 20
Coruscations, artificial 136
Cotton electrified 92
Crackers, to make 169
Cylinder, illuminated 91
Dance, magic 86
Dancer, hydraulic 49
Detonating works 190
Detonating Girdle 190
Detonating Balls 191
Detonating Tape 191
Detonating Cards 191
Dial, magnetic 71
Dodecahedron in Fire-works 187
Duplicates, ten 102
Earthquake, artificial 22, 86, 187
Eclipse of the Sun, to observe 129
Egg, to form Figures on, in Relief 35
Eggs, white of, contains an Alkali 144
Electric effects of a Russian climate 30
Electricity, experiments in 83
Electricity, Resin lighted by 95
Electricity, Spirits ignited by 95
Eolian Harp, to make 137
Exhalations, subaqueous 137
Explosion, brilliant, under Water 54
Explosion, magical 86
Explosion, electric 98
Feather, animated 83
Feathers heavier than Lead 79
Figures, two, one blows out, and the other re-lights a Candle 39
Fire produced by the mixture of two cold Liquids 13
Fire produced from Cane 136
Fire-pumps in Fire-works 186
Fire-works in miniature 27
Fire-works imitative 149
Fire-works Art of making 163
Fire-works aquatic 192
Flash of Lightning, to resemble on entering a Room 37
Flower, to produce the Appearance of, from its Ashes 149
Flowers, restored 26
Flowers, to diversify the Colours of 141
Fountain, fiery 44
Fountain, globular 48
Fountain, illuminated 51
Fountain, which acts by the Heat of the Sun 52
Fountain, magic 80
Fountain, electrical 87
Fountains, Chinese, in Fire-works 187
Fruit, withered, restored 78
Fulminating Powders 33
more powerful 34
Fulminating Gold 40
Fulminating Mercury 54
Gas Bubbles, exploding 160
Ghastly Appearance, to give to Persons in a Room 35
Glass, so to fill with Water that it cannot be removed without spilling the whole 38
Gold Chain, old, to make look like new 43
Gold to give Silver the Colour of 43
Guinea, penetrative 132
Gunpowder 165
exploded by reflection 125
Brimstone and Charcoal, to meal for Fire-works 165

Halo, artificial 80
Horn, to make Moulds of 134
Horn, to soften 134
Hour of the Day or Night told by a suspended Shilling 152
Hydrogen Gas, to procure 159
Hydrogen Gas, to fill a Bladder with 159
Illuminations, artificial 22
Illuminations, chemical 36
Illusion, alternate 146
Incendiary, unconscious 88
Indromacus 103
Ink, invisible 23
Gold, Silver, Yellow, Red, Green, Violet, and Grey 24, 25
secret Correspondence by Means of 25
Ink, golden 41
Ink, white 42
Iron, transformed into Copper 36
Iron, transformed into Silver 36
Iron, melted in a Moment and run into Drops 37
Iron, or Steel, to soften 135
Ivory, to cast Figures in Imitation of 134
Kings, the four inseparable 116
Kite, electric 87
Lamp to burn twelve Months without replenishing 29
Lamp Chronometer 46
Landscape, artificial 66
Landscape, to draw correctly 67
Lead, metallic, produced from the Powder 141
Leech, a Prognosticator of Weather 157
Leyden Phial 94
Light, rays of 143
Light, refraction of 144
Light, travelling of 145
Lightning, artificial 14
Lightning, its wonderful Nature 144
Lightning, to guard against 153
Liquor that shines in the Dark 40
Liquor luminous 41
Luminaries, miraculous 89

Magic Lantern, Experiment with the 62
Magic Lantern, Glasses to paint 63
Magic Lantern, solar 60
Magnetism, Experiments in 70
Memory, artificial 158
Microscope, Experiment for the 145
Mirror, Magician's 124
Mirror, perspective 124
Mirror, distorting 126
Mirror, oracular 152
Mirrors, magical 53
Mirrors, deforming 123
Mirrors, igniting 125
Money augmented by optical Illusion 15
Money melted in a Walnut-shell 40
Mortars, in Fire-works 184
Neptune in his Chariot 198
Number, to tell any, privately fixed on 45
without asking questions 45
Number, divisible by 9, &c. 55
Numbers, to find the difference of two, &c. 56
Objects, three, discernible only with both Eyes 15
Oil upon Water, and Water upon Oil, curious Effects of 161
Oil and Water, Experiments with 161
Opaque Bodies, seemingly transparent 121
Opaque Box made transparent 130
Opera-glass, diagonal 129
Oracle, inanimate 61
Orrery, magnetic 72
Orrery, electrical 92, 99
Palace, enchanted 120
Parties, three magical 110
Paradox, dioptrical 127
Pass, how to make the 107
Perspective-glass, divining 111
Phantom 126
Phial of the four Elements 48
Philosophical Candle 37
Phosphorus Match Bottles 34
Phosphorus inflammable 53
Phosphorus, illuminated 97
Picture, magic 13
Pictures of Birds, to make, with their natural Feathers 132
Pieces, transposable 131
Plants, remarkable Properties in 28
Writing, burnt, restored 129
Writing, in the Dark, to make luminous 139
Writing, on Glass by the Rays of the Sun 148