Parlour Magic

by Unknown

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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]
Magic Breath	[13]
Two Bitters make a Sweet	[14]
Visible and Invisible	[14]
Sight and Sound.
Artificial Mirage	[17]
Motion of the Eye	[18]
Single Vision with two Eyes	[19]
Two objects seen as one	[19]
Only one object can be seen at a time	[20]
Straight objects seen crooked	[20]
Optical Illusion	[21]
Pin-hole Focus	[21]
Optical Deceptions	[22]
Accuracy of Sight	[22]
Visual Deception	[23]
Handwriting upon the Wall	[23]
Imitative Haloes	[23]
To read a Coin in the dark	[24]
To make a Prism	[24]
Optical Augmentation	[25]
Gold Fish in a glass Globe	[26]
Colours produced by the unequal action of Light upon the Eyes	[26]
Optical Deception	[27]
Coloured Shadows	[27]
Colours of Scratches	[27]
Ocular Spectra	[28]
Beautiful Colours of Mother of Pearl	[28]
White Letters seen further than Black	[29]
Artificial Rainbow	[29]
Fringe about a Candle	[29]
The Double Coloured Reflection	[30]
Luminous Cross	[30]
Ring of Colours round a Candle	[30]
Simple and Cheap Opera-glass	[31]
Multiplying Theatres	[31]
Apparatus for Writing in the Dark	[32]
Portable Microscope	[33]
The Phenakistiscope or Stroboscope	[34]
To look at the Sun without injury	[35]
Brilliant Water Mirror	[35]
Optical Illusion under Water	[35]
The Magic Wheels	[36]
Acoustic Rainbow	[37]
Transmission of Sound	[37]
Progress of Sound	[39]
Sound turning Corners	[39]
To tell the distance of Thunder	[40]
Hearing by the Touch	[40]
Conversation for the Deaf	[40]
Glass broken by the Voice	[41]
Figures produced by Sound	[41]
Transmitted Vibration	[42]
Double Vibration	[42]
Champagne and Sound	[42]
Music from Palisades	[43]
Theory of the Jew’s Harp	[43]
Music of the Snail	[44]
To tune a Guitar without the assistance of the Ear	[44]
Music from Glass or Metal Rods	[44]
The Tuning-fork a Flute-player	[45]
Musical Bottles	[46]
Theory of Whispering	[46]
Theory of the Voice	[46]
Sound along a Wall	[47]
Sounds more audible by Night than by Day	[47]
Musical Echo	[47]
Ventriloquism	[48]
Light and Heat.
Flashes of Light upon revolving Wheels	[53]
Decomposition of Light	[54]
Solar Refraction	[54]
Incantations	[55]
To imitate the Light of the Sea	[55]
Instantaneous Lights	[56]
To colour the Flame of a Candle	[57]
To divide the Flame of a Candle	[57]
Cane Wick Lamp	[58]
Camphor and Platinum Lamp	[58]
Platinum and Ether Lamp	[58]
Floating Light	[59]
Substitute for a Wax Taper	[59]
Phosphorescent Fish	[59]
The Luminous Spectre	[59]
Light, a Painter	[60]
Effect of Light upon Crystallization	[60]
Effect of Light on Plants	[60]
Instantaneous Light upon Ice	[61]
White Light from Zinc	[61]
Brilliant Light from two Metals	[61]
Brilliant Light from Steel	[61]
Lighted Tin	[62]
Light from Gilt Buttons	[62]
Light from a Flower	[62]
Light from Sugar	[62]
Light from the Potato	[63]
Light from the Oyster	[63]
Light from Derbyshire Spar	[63]
Light from Oyster-shells	[64]
Rings of Light in Crystal	[64]
To strike Light with Cane	[64]
Cause of Transparency	[64]
Transparency of Gold	[65]
Tint changed by Thickness	[65]
Shadows made darker by increased Light	[65]
Miniature Thunder and Lightning	[66]
The Burning Glass	[66]
Magic of Heat	[66]
Repulsion by Heat	[67]
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	[85]
Magic Vapour	[85]
Gas from the union of Metals	[85]
Invisible Gases made Visible	[86]
Light under Water	[86]
Gaseous Evanescence	[86]
Violet-coloured Gas	[86]
To collect Gases	[87]
The Deflagrating Spoon	[87]
What is Steam?	[87]
The Steam Engine simplified	[88]
To boil Water by Steam	[88]
Distillation in Miniature	[89]
Candle or Fire Crackers	[89]
Steam from the Kettle	[89]
Fire, Water, and Air.
Coloured Flames	[93]
Yellow Flame	[94]
Orange-coloured Flame	[94]
Emerald Green Flame	[94]
Instantaneous Flame	[94]
The Cup of Flame	[95]
To cool Flame by Metal	[95]
Proof that Flame is Hollow	[95]
Camphor sublimed by Flame	[95]
Green Fire	[96]
Brilliant Red Fire	[96]
Purple Fire	[96]
Silver Fire	[97]
The Fiery Fountain	[97]
The Artificial Conflagration	[97]
Inflammable Powder	[97]
Combustion without Flame	[98]
Combustion of Three Metals	[98]
To make Paper Incombustible	[98]
Singular Experiments with Glass Tubes	[98]
Aquatic Bomb	[99]
Heat not to be estimated by Touch	[99]
Flame upon Water	[100]
Rose-coloured Flame on Water	[100]
To set a Mixture on Fire with Water	[100]
Waves of Fire on Water	[100]
Explosion in Water	[101]
Water from the Flame of a Candle	[101]
Formation of Water by Fire	[101]
Boiling upon Cold Water	[101]
Currents in Boiling Water	[102]
Hot Water lighter than Cold	[102]
Expansion of Water by Cold	[102]
The Cup of Tantalus	[103]
Imitative Diving Bell	[103]
The Water-proof Sieve	[104]
More than full	[104]
To cause Wine and Water to change places	[104]
Pyramid of Alum	[104]
Visible Vibration	[105]
Charcoal in Sugar	[106]
Floating Needles	[106]
Water in a Sling	[106]
Attraction in a Glass of Water	[106]
To prevent Cork floating in Water	[107]
Instantaneous Freezing	[107]
To freeze Water with Ether	[107]
Production of Nitre	[108]
Curious Transposition	[108]
Animal Barometer	[108]
Magic Soap	[108]
Equal Pressure of Water	[109]
To empty a Glass under Water	[109]
To empty a Glass of Water without touching it	[109]
Decomposition of Water	[110]
Water heavier than Wine	[110]
To inflate a Bladder without Air	[110]
Air and Water Balloon	[110]
Heated Air Balloon	[111]
The Pneumatic Tinder-box	[111]
The Bacchus Experiment	[111]
The Mysterious Circles	[112]
Prince Rupert’s Drops	[114]
Vegetable Hygrometer	[114]
The Pneumatic Dancer	[115]
The Ascending Snake	[116]
The Pneumatic Phial	[116]
Resin Bubbles	[117]
Moisture of the Atmosphere	[117]
Climates of a Room	[117]
Bubbles in Champagne	[118]
Proofs that Air is a heavy Fluid	[118]
To support a Pea on Air	[119]
Pyrophorus, or Air-tinder	[119]
Beauty of a Soap-bubble	[120]
Why a Guinea falls more quickly than a Feather through the Air	[121]
Solidity of Air	[122]
Breathing and Smelling	[122]
Sleights and Subtleties.
The Ring and the Handkerchief	[127]
The Knotted Handkerchief	[128]
The Invisible Springs	[130]
The Miraculous Apple	[131]
The Self-balanced Pail	[132]
The Phantom at command	[132]
The Miraculous Shilling	[134]
The Locomotive Shilling	[135]
The Penetrative Sixpence	[136]
The Vanishing Sixpence	[136]
To make a Sixpence balance and spin on its edge on the point of a Needle	[137]
The Multiplying Coin	[137]
The Magic Rat Trap	[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]
Contra-crystallization	[157]
One and one do not make two	[158]
To copy Writing instantly	[158]
The Rival Dials	[158]
To spin Indian Rubber	[158]
Indelible Writing	[159]
Vegetable Anatomy	[159]
To tell what o’Clock it is by the Moon	[160]
The Physiognotype	[161]
Infinite Divisibility of Matter	[161]
Holding the Breath	[162]
Sand in the Hour-Glass	[162]
Resistance of Sand	[163]
Glass broken by Sand	[164]
To bleach Ivory	[164]
Vanishing Shells	[164]
The Magic Egg	[164]
The Magic Whirlpool	[165]
Magic Porcelain	[167]
A Galvanic Tongue	[168]
Drinking Porter out of Pewter	[168]
Electric or Galvanic Preservation	[168]
Light from the Diamond	[169]
To break a Stone with a blow of the Fist	[169]
Mimic Frost-work	[169]
To melt Lead in a piece of Paper	[170]
Hydrostatic Balance	[170]
Metallic Reduction	[171]
Electrical Attraction and Repulsion	[171]
Alchemical Electricity	[172]
The Electric Balls	[173]
The Electric Dance	[173]
Electric Light	[173]
Electric Light from Brown Paper	[174]
Sudden Production of Light	[174]
Electricity of the Cat	[174]

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TRANSMUTATIONS.