How to become a scientist
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GIVING Interesting and Instructive Experiments IN CHEMISTRY, Mechanics, Acoustics AND PYROTECHNICS.
ALSO CONTAINING MATHEMATICAL PROBLEMS and PUZZLES BOTH USEFUL AND AMUSING.
New York: FRANK TOUSEY, Publisher, 24 Union Square.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1900, by
FRANK TOUSEY,
in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington, D. C.
Chemistry, optics, pneumatics, mechanics, and mathematics, all contribute their share towards furnishing recreation and sport for the social gathering, or the family fireside. The magical combinations and effects of chemistry have furnished an almost infinite variety of pleasant experiments, which may be performed by our youthful friends with great success if a little care be taken; and the other branches of natural science are nearly as replete with interest.
The following repertoire of such tricks and illusions will be found exceedingly complete, although pains have been taken to select only the best and most startling of them. A large number are entirely new, but are described with sufficient clearness to enable any person of ordinary intelligence to become expert in them, with a little practice.
Chemistry is one of the most attractive sciences. From the beginning to the end the student is surprised and delighted with the developments of the exact discrimination, as well as the power and capacity, which are displayed in various forms of chemical action. Dissolve two substances in the same fluid, and then, by evaporation or otherwise, cause them to reassume a solid form, and each particle will unite with its own kind, to the entire exclusion of all others. Thus, if sulphate of copper and carbonate of soda are dissolved in boiling water, and then the water is evaporated, each salt will be reformed as before. This phenomenon is the result of one of the first principles of the science, and as such is passed over without thought; but it is a wonderful phenomenon, and made of no account, only by the fact that it is so common and so familiar.
Aaron A. Warford
Transcriber’s Notes:
How to Become a Scientist.
How to Become a Scientist.
Chemical Amusements.
Sympathetic Inks.
To Light a Candle Without Touching the Wick.
Magic Milk.
The Mimic Vesuvius.
The Real Will-o’-the-Wisp.
The Paper Oracle.
The Mimic Gas-House.
Alum Basket.
The Magic Bottle.
The Faded Rose Restored.
The Protean Liquid.
The Changeable Ribbon.
The Chemical Chameleon.
Musical Flame.
Optical Amusements.
The Camera Obscura.
The Magic Lantern.
The Phantasmagoria.
Dissolving Views.
How to Raise a Ghost.
To Imitate a Mirage.
Two-fold Reflections.
The Thaumatrope.
PNEUMATIC AMUSEMENTS.
The Magic Tumbler.
The Weight of the Air Proved by a Pair of Bellows.
The Revolving Serpent.
To Put a Lighted Candle Under Water.
To Place Water in a Drinking-Glass Upside Down.
AMUSEMENTS IN MECHANICS.
Experiment of the Law of Motion.
Balancing.
The Balanced Coin.
The Spanish Dancer.
The Mechanical Bucephalus.
The Revolving Image.
The Bridge of Knives.
The Parlor Boomerang.
The Balanced Turk.
The Complacent Vizier.
ARITHMETICAL AMUSEMENTS.
Aphorisms of Number.
To Find a Number Thought of.
To Discover Two or More Numbers that a Person has Thought of.
How Many Counters Have I in My Hands?
The Three Travelers.
The Money Game.
The Philosopher’s Pupils.
The Certain Game.
The Dice Guessed Unseen.
The Famous Forty-five.
The Astonished Farmer.
The Expunged Figure.
Mysterious Addition.
The Remainder.
The Three Jealous Husbands.
The Arithmetical Mouse-Trap.
HOW TO BECOME A CHEMIST.
Gases.
Oxygen Gas.
FOOTNOTE:
Experiment.
Experiment.
Nitrogen.
Experiment.
Atmospheric Air.
Hydrogen.
Experiments.
Water.
Experiment.
Chlorine.
Experiments.
Muriatic Acid Gas, or Chloride.
Experiments.
Iodine—Bromine—Fluorine.
Experiments.
Bromine.
Experiments.
Fluorine.
Experiment.
Carbon.
Experiments.
Carbon and Hydrogen.
Experiment.
Coal Gas.
Experiment.
Phosphorus.
Experiments.
Sulphur.
Metals.
Potassium.
Experiment.
Experiments.
Experiments.
Crystallization of Metals.
Experiment.
To Form a Solid From Two Liquids.
To Form a Liquid From Two Solids.
Experiments.
Changes of Color Produced by Colorless Liquids.
ACOUSTICS.
Difference Between Sound and Noise.
Sounds, How Propagated.
To Show How Sound Travels Through a Solid.
To Show That Sound Depends on Vibration.
Musical Figures Resulting From Sound.
To Make an Æolian Harp.
FIREWORKS.
Gunpowder.
How to Make Touch-Paper.
Cases for Squibs, Flower-Pots, Rockets, Roman Candles, Etc.
To Choke the Cases.
Composition for Squibs, Etc.
How to Fill the Cases.
To Make Crackers.
Roman Candles and Stars.
Rockets.
Rains.
Catherine Wheels.
Various Colored Fires.
Crimson Fire.
Blue Fire.
Green Fire.
Purple Fire.
White Fire.
Spur Fire.
Blue Lights.
Port or Wildfires.
Slow Fire for Wheels.
Dead Fire for Wheels.
Cautions.
To Make an Illuminated Spiral Wheel.
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