This volume is the most complete and authoritative book that has been compiled on the subject to date. It has been several years in research and preparation. The co-authors are thoroughly versed in the art of magic and the science of chemistry. By combining the two old professions they have produced this new volume, Modern Chemical Magic.
For amusement in your own home or entertaining a group of friends, this new overture to magic has no peer; it is startling, mystifying and most effective. It gives a new approach to the professional or amateur magician to add variety to his programs. It serves the science teacher and scholar with something that shows the more interesting and dramatic side of the age-old science of chemistry.
Tricks, effects and methods are well explained. The chemicals are easily procured, the majority of them being in powder form, which makes them easy to handle and carry. Modern Chemical Magic is divided into fifteen chapters with a brilliant introduction by the world famous magician, Harry Blackstone. Contained herein are over two hundred and fifty tricks, methods and effects - from chemical daubs to chemical demons - truly chemical-magic miracles, all explained in detail and in some instances illustrated.
- Concerning the Authors...
- INTRODUCTION
- FOREWORD
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- CREDITS
- PREFACE
- Chapter I Chemical Magic With Liquids
- Water to Wine
- A Magic Pitcher of Grenadine
- A Magic Pitcher of Bluing
- Water to Sherry Wine
- Sherry Wine to Water
- A Magic Pitcher of Wine and Bluing
- Pouring Red, White and Blue from the Same Pitcher
- Pouring Red, Yellow and Black from the Same Pitcher
- Pouring Blue, Gold and Red from the Same Pitcher
- Pouring Nine Different Colors from the Same Pitcher
- Water to Milk and Milk to Ink
- Wine to Beer
- A Chemical Clock
- A Synthetic Cow
- Conjuring Red from Blue
- Water to Wine to Ink to Water
- Pouring Ink and Milk from the Same Pitcher
- Another Water to Wine
- Character and Knowledge
- Fugitive Color
- Water to Milk
- Water to Wine and Wine to Milk
- A Magic Pitcher of Milk and Ink
- Chemical Color Chase
- Water to Wine
- Multicolor with Flash Finish
- Water to Beer
- Rainbow Colors
- Creme De Menthe
- By Command - Water to Ink
- A Liquid from Solids
- Chemical "Ice"
- Chameleon Mineral
- That Chameleon Mineral Again
- Disappearing Whisky
- Solid to Liquid
- Blue to Red, Green, Crimson or Purple
- Green to Blue
- Blue to Red
- Chapter II Fun With Dry Ice
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- VI
- VII
- VIII
- Chapter III Invisible Inks
- Red
- Blue
- Black
- Brown
- Yellow
- Green
- Violet
- Water Creates Visibility
- Light Creates Visibility
- Chameleon Pictures
- Famous German Spy Formula
- Vanishing Inks
- Emergency Type Inks
- Spirit Writing
- A Magic Picture
- A Magic Picture in Colors
- Magic Blue Writing Paper
- Magic Black Writing Paper
- Writing that Disappears by Magic
- Salt Writing
- "Old Glory" Appears by Magic
- The Mysterious Picture
- The Answering Picture
- Chapter IV Luminous Paints
- Phosphorescent Glowing Paint
- Orange Luminous Paint
- Green Luminous Paint
- Green Luminous Paint
- Blue Luminous Paint
- Blue Luminous Paint
- Violet Luminous Paint
- Deep Yellow Luminous Paint
- A Few Comments
- Red Luminous Paint
- An Easy Luminous Paint
- A Ghost Show Routine
- Ghost Card
- Ghost Coin
- Spirit Answer
- Mysterious Dice
- Mystery Magazine
- Mentally Speaking
- Evil-Eye
- Spooky Lights
- Apparitions
- Ghostly Faces
- Ectoplasm
- Seeing Ghosts
- The Escaping Shadow
- Chapter V Luminous Inks
- Luminous Ink
- Fluorescent Inks
- Luminous Paste Inks
- Chapter VI Daub
- Magic Methods With "Daub"
- Magic With Daub
- Location
- Take A Card
- Chapter VII Magic With Flash Paper
- Flash Paper
- Colored Flash Paper
- Colored Flash Paper
- Dove Pan
- Chapter VIII Fire Magic
- Blue Fire
- Red Fire
- Green Fire
- Yellow Fire
- White Fire
- Colored Flames
- Water Starts A Fire
- Ice Starts A Fire
- The Exploding Hammer
- Magic Sparks
- Flash Powders
- Serpent's "Eggs"
- Some More Snakes
- Burning Ice
- Smoke Screen
- The Hot Gin
- Fired Liquid
- Satan's Telegram
- Think Fire
- An Innovation
- The Fire Bowl
- Self-Lighting Candles
- A Magic Picture
- Lighting A Cigarette With Ice
- Candles Which Go Out
- Chapter IX Fire Eating
- Blowing A Paper On Fire
- Flames From The Mouth
- "Eating" Fire
- Chapter X Magic With Slates
- The Scientific Secret
- "The Spirits Know All" or a Living and Dead Combination
- A Daring Volta Method
- Dead or Alive Discovery
- A Number Test
- The "Spirits" Correct A Mistake
- A Few Remarks
- A Mind Reading Number Divination
- Another "No Flap" Method
- Spirits from China
- Suffice to Say
- Colored Chalk
- For Children Only
- Additional Ideas
- One of the Three Little Pigs
- The Rising Card
- Novelty Balloon Stunt
- Magic Hair Restorer
- Other Ideas
- Some other Slate-Writing Techniques
- Chapter XI Chemical Cocktails
- The Magic Soda Fountain
- Sensational New "Beer Powder"
- The Magic Soda Fountain
- Chapter XII Chemical Stunts
- A Chemical Smoke Screen
- Magic Ice
- How to Make Bones Elastic
- How to Stretch an Egg
- The Magic Handkerchief
- Green Violets
- An Obedient Egg
- Water That Will Not Spill
- The Mysterious Mothball
- Chapter XIII Professional Magic
- Patriotic Liquids and Silks
- Magic Dyeing
- Califaction of Handkerchiefs
- Mystic Papers
- The Bewitched Paper
- Stage Size Out to Lunch Trick
- The Chemical Garden
- Magic Garden Seeds
- Dry or Wet
- Anti-Climax
- Flaming Beauty
- Reading Sealed Envelopes
- Another Liquid - ?? - Solid
- Writing With Fire
- Spirit Photograph
- The Spirits Reveal
- Flash Pot
- Dark Eyes
- Revelation
- Prediction
- Misdirection
- Bottle of Smoke
- Production of Three Large Balloons From a Paper Cone
- Another Balloon Production From Paper Cone
- And More Balloons
- Think! Ink!
- Clock Reaction - Yellow
- Clock Reaction - White
- The Backslider
- The Money Maker
- Magic Flowers
- The Smoking Pipes
- Smoke In The Bell Jar
- The Atomic Bomb
- The Magic Pipe
- The Pirate Knife
- The Spirit Glass
- Magical Rainbow
- The Smoking Hands
- Gravatt's Mental Mystery
- Ink and Water Columns
- Sands of Enchantment
- The Trick Without A Name
- How to Treat Rope Ends
- Frozen Smoke
- Magnet-Tizo
- A Flash Paper and Match Stunt
- Producing Two Flashes of Flame
- A Self-Lighting Candle
- Secret Message
- Balloon "Skullduggery"
- Floating Metal Disc
- Pearls of Buddha
- Magic Metal
- Magic Dye
- Ideas for Routines with Chemical Magic
- Chemical Substitution
- Ink - ???
- Color Changes
- Chapter XIV Chemical Tips For Better Tricks
- Daub
- Metallic Daub
- Daub Substitutes
- Milk Pitcher Magic
- That Egg "Again"
- Beverage Substitutes
- Flesh Paint
- Wax Substitutes
- For Slicking Cards
- Roughing Fluid
- Pip Paint
- Silk Cleansing Compounds
- Cleaning Feather Flowers
- Removal of Stains from Cards
- Fire-Proofing
- Stains from Metal
- Cement for Glass
- Diachylon
- Chapter XV Chemical Jokes and Novelties
- Exploding Matches
- Exploding Matches
- Exploding Matches
- Diabolical Candles
- Trick Matches
- Sugar - ???
- Serpent Matches
- Vanishing Ink
- Sparkling Matches
- How to Make a Fuse
- Magic Cigarettes
- Diabolical Bombs
- Chameleon Powders
- Living - ???
1st edition 1959, PDF 145 pages
word count: 45645 which is equivalent to 182 standard pages of text
