How To Do Mechanical Tricks
by A. Anderson

Containing complete instructions 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 Inaccessable 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
• 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

1st edition ~1902, 62 pages; PDF 49 pages.
word count: 13078 which is equivalent to 52 standard pages of text